MLF Lullaby 1964 Tom Lehrer

Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK - 19 Nov 2002

Sleep, baby sleep,
in peace may you slumber,
no danger lurks,
your sleep to encumber,
we've got the missiles,
peace to determine,
and one of the fingers
on the button will be German.

Why shouldn't they have nuclear warheads?
England says no,
but they are all soreheads,
I say a bygone should be a bygone,
let's make peace the way we did
in Stanleyville and Saigon.

Once all the Germans
were warlike and mean,
but that couldn't happen again.
We taught them a lesson
in nineteeneighteen,
and they've hardly bothered us since then.

So sleep well, my darling,
the sandman can linger,
we know our buddies won't give us the finger,
Heil, hail the Wehrmacht,
I mean the Bundeswehr.
Hail to our loyal ally!
M.L.F. will scare Brezhnev,
I hope he is half as scared as I.

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MLF Lullaby 1964 Tom Lehrer
by Tom Lehrer
copyright 1964 and 1966 by Tom Lehrer
sequence and karaoke by Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK
on Tuesday 19 November 2002 at 08.28
in association with Doug Grierson
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