Oedipus Rex-Tom Lehrer

[ti:Oedipus Rex] [ar:Tom Lehrer] [al:The Very Best of Tom Lehrer] [offset:0] [00:00.38]It seems that most of the songs that you hear these days [00:02.51]On the radio played by the disk jockeys apart from rock [00:05.80]And roll and other children's records tend tend to be motion [00:15.85]Picture title songs apparently producers feel that we [00:19.15]Will not attend their movies unless we have the titles [00:21.06]Well drilled into our heads in advance of course we [00:24.31]Don't go anyway but at least this way they make back on [00:27.16]The song some of what they've lost on the picture but [00:31.54]With the rise of the motion picture title song we have [00:33.88]Such hits of the past few years as the ten commandments mambo [00:43.12] [00:44.35]Brothers karamazov cha cha incredible shrinking man i love you [00:55.46]I'm sure you're all familiar with these [00:56.65]But a few years ago a motion picture version appeared [01:00.00]Of sophocles immortal tragedy oedipus rex this picture [01:04.30]Played only in the so called art theaters and it was not [01:06.67]A financial success and i maintain that the reason it was [01:10.46]Not a financial success you're way ahead of me was [01:21.68]That it did not have a title tune which the people could [01:25.71]Hum and which would make them actually eager to attend [01:35.47]This particular flick so i've attempted attempted to supply this [01:40.88]And here then is the prospective title song from oedipus rex [01:46.11] [01:48.35]From the bible to the popular song [01:51.02]There's one theme that we find right along [01:53.87]Of all ideals they hail as good [01:56.29]The most sublime is motherhood [02:00.17]There was a man though who it seems [02:02.55]Once carried this ideal to extremes [02:06.74]He loved his mother and she loved him [02:09.31]And yet his story is rather grim [02:14.79] [02:19.72]There once lived a man named oedipus rex [02:21.82]You may have heard about his odd complex [02:23.40] [02:23.96]His name appears in freud's index [02:25.97]Cause he loved his mother [02:29.45] [02:30.16]His rivals used to say quite a bit [02:32.12]That as a monarch he was most unfit [02:34.31]But still in all they had to admit [02:36.29]That he loved his mother [02:40.19]Yes he loved his mother like no other [02:42.46]His daughter was his sister and his son was his brother [02:45.17]One thing on which you can depend is [02:48.14]He sure knew who a boy's best friend is [02:50.55]When he found what he had done [02:52.33]He tore his eyes out one by one [02:54.37]A tragic end to a loyal son [02:56.36]Who loved his mother [02:59.19] [03:00.49]So be sweet and kind to mother [03:01.96]Now and then have a chat [03:03.51]Buy her candy or some flowers [03:04.74]Or a brand new hat [03:06.50]But maybe you had better let it go at that [03:09.65]Or you may find yourself with a quite complex complex [03:14.06]And you may end up like oedipus [03:16.67]I'd rather marry a duck billed platypus [03:18.96]Than end up like old oedipus rex [03:23.23]Oedipus Rex - Tom Lehrer [03:24.18]