We Will All Go Together When We Go-Tom Lehrer

[ti:We Will All Go Together When We Go] [ar:Tom Lehrer] [al:The Very Best of Tom Lehrer] [offset:0] [00:00.74]I am reminded at this point of a fellow i used to know [00:04.03]Who's name was henry only to give you an idea of [00:07.02]What an individualist he was he spelt it hen 3 ry [00:12.70]The 3 was silent you see [00:14.43] [00:20.70]Henry henry was finally independent having inherited his father's [00:27.45] [00:28.21]Tar and feather business and was therefore able to [00:33.30]Devote his full time to such intellectual pursuits as writing [00:37.52]I particularly remember a heart warming [00:39.33]Novel of his about a young necropheliac who finally [00:42.38]Achieved his boy hood ambition by becoming coroner [00:45.80] [00:50.86]The rest of you can look it up when you get home [00:55.37] [01:00.30]In addition to writing he indulged in a good deal of [01:03.16]Philosophizing like so many contemporary philosophers [01:06.33]He especially enjoyed giving helpful [01:08.19]Advice to people who were happier than he was [01:11.17]One one particular bit of advice which i recall [01:17.43]Which is the reason i bring up this whole [01:19.06]Dreary story is something he said once before they took him away [01:23.44]The massachussetts state home for the bewilderd [01:28.03] [01:30.72]He said life is like a sewer what you get out of it depends on [01:37.29]What you put into it it's always seems to me that this is precisely [01:53.26]Sort of dynamic positive thinking that we [01:58.73]So desperately need today in these trying times of crisis [02:02.79]And universal broo ha ha and so with this in mind [02:06.06]I have here a modern positive dynamic uplifting [02:09.52]Song in the tradition of the great old revival hymns [02:12.71]This one might more accurately be termed a survival hymn [02:16.56] [02:23.48]When you attend a funeral [02:25.64]It is sad to think that sooner or [02:28.24]Later those you love will do the same for you [02:34.06]And you may have thought it tragic [02:36.26]Not to mention other adjec [02:38.31]Tives to think of all the weeping they will do [02:41.03]But don't you worry [02:42.57]No more ashes no more sackcloth [02:44.83]And an armband made of black cloth [02:46.96]Will some day never more adorn a sleeve [02:50.93]For if the bomb that drops on you [02:54.53]Gets your friends and neighbors too [02:58.95]There'll be nobody left behind to grieve [03:02.84]And we will all go together when we go [03:07.88]What a comforting fact that is to know [03:11.68]Universal bereavement [03:13.68]An inspiring achievement [03:15.66]Yes we all will go together when we go [03:19.39]We will all go together when we go [03:23.07]All suffuse with an incandescent glow [03:26.84]No one will have the endurance [03:28.94]To collect on his insurance [03:30.88]Lloyd's of london will be loaded when they go [03:35.02]Oh we will all fry together when we fry [03:39.39]We'll be french fried potatoes by and by [03:43.22]There will be no more misery [03:45.12]When the world is our rotisserie [03:47.11]Yes we all will fry together when we fry [03:51.05]Down by the old maelstrom [03:58.37]There'll be a storm before the calm [04:02.90]And we will all bake together when we bake [04:07.58]There'll be nobody present at the wake [04:11.37]With complete participation [04:13.19]In that grand incineration [04:15.22]Nearly three billion hunks of well done steak [04:19.18]Oh we will all char together when we char [04:23.98]And let there be no moaning of the bar [04:27.58]Just sing out a te deum [04:29.62]When you see that i c b m [04:31.79]And the party will be come as you are [04:36.42]Oh we will all burn together when we burn [04:41.86]There'll be no need to stand and wait your turn [04:45.61]When it's time for the fallout [04:47.48]And saint peter calls us all out [04:49.42]We'll just drop our agendas and adjourn [04:51.54] [04:54.03]You will all go directly to your respective valhallas [04:58.68]Go directly do not pass go do not collect two hundred dolla's [05:06.55]And we will all go together when we go [05:12.68]Ev'ry hottenhot and ev'ry eskimo [05:16.30]When the air becomes uranious [05:19.45]And we will all go simultaneous [05:22.67]Yes we all will go together [05:24.37]When we all go together [05:26.09]Yes we all will go together when we go [05:31.24]We Will All Go Together When We Go - Tom Lehrer [05:33.37]