Smut 1965 Tom Lehrer

Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK - 11 Nov 2002

Smut!
Give me smut and nothing but!
A dirty novel I can't shut,
if it's uncut, and unsubtle.
I've never quibbled if it was ribald,
I would devour where others merely nibbled.
As the judge remarked the day that
he acquitted my Aunt Hortense:
"To be smut, it must be utterly without
redeeming social importense."
Pornographic pictures I adore,
Indecent magazines galore,
I like them more if they're hardcore!

[Spoken:] Bring on the obscene movies,
murals postcards, neckties, samplers,
stained-glass windows, tattoos, anything!

More, more, I'm still not satisfied!

[Sung:] Stories of tortures,
used by debauchers,
lurid, licentious and vile.
Make me smile.

Novels that pander to my taste for candor
give me a pleasure sublime.

[Spoken:] Let's face it, I love slime.
[Sung:] All books can be indecent books
though recent books are bolder,
for filth (I'm glad to say)
is in the mind of the beholder;
when correctly viewed,
ev'rything is lewd.
[Spoken:] I could tell you things
about Peter Pan,
and the Wizard of Oz,
there's a dirty old man!

[Sung:] I thrill!
to any book like "Fanny Hill."
And I suppose I always will,
if it is swill, and really filthy.

Who needs a hobby,
like tennis or philately?
I've got a hobby:
rereading "Lady Chatterley."
But now they're trying
to take it all away from us
unless we take a stand,
and hand in hand we fight
for freedom of the press,
in other words Smut!
Like the adventures of a slut,
Oh, I'm a market they can't glut,
I don't know what compares with smut,
hip hip hooray!

[Spoken:] Let's hear it for
The Supreme Court!
[Sung:] Don't let them take it away!

Soft karaoke
Words
treble clef 1
treble clef 2
lyric line
bass
Smut 1965 Tom Lehrer
by Tom Lehrer
copyright 1965 and 1966 by Tom Lehrer
sequence and karaoke by Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK
on Monday 11 November 2002 at 11.56
in association with Doug Grierson
*