1.National Brotherhood Week
One week of every year is designated national brotherhood week.
this is just one of many such weeks honoring various worthy
causes. one of my favorites is national
make-fun-of-the-handicapped we
Ich frank fontaine and jerry lewis are in charge of as you know.
during national brotherhood week various special events are
arranged to drive home the message of brotherhood. this year,
for exa
On the first day of the week malcolm x was killed which gives
you an idea of how effective the whole thing is. i'm sure we all
agree that we ought to love one another and i know there are
peopl
The world that do not love their fellow human beings and i hate
people like that. here's a song about national brotherhood week.
Oh, the white folks hate the black folks,
And the black folks hate the white folks.
To hate all but the right folks
Is an old established rule.
But during national brotherhood week, national brotherhood week,
Lena horne and sheriff clarke are dancing cheek to cheek.
It's fun to eulogize
The people you despise,
As long as you don't let 'em in your school.
Oh, the poor folks hate the rich folks,
And the rich folks hate the poor folks.
All of my folks hate all of your folks,
It's american as apple pie.
But during national brotherhood week, national brotherhood week,
New yorkers love the puerto ricans 'cause it's very chic.
Step up and shake the hand
Of someone you can't stand.
You can tolerate him if you try.
Oh, the protestants hate the catholics,
And the catholics hate the protestants,
And the hindus hate the moslems,
And everybody hates the jews.
But during national brotherhood week, national brotherhood week,
It's national everyone-smile-at-one-another-hood week.
Be nice to people who
Are inferior to you.
It's only for a week, so have no fear.
Be grateful that it doesn't last all year!
2.Mlf Lullaby
A considerable amount of commotion was stirred up during the
past year over the prospect of a multi-lateral force, known to
the headline writers as mlf. much of this discussion took place
during
Baseball season so the chronicle may not have covered it but it
did get a certain amount of publicity, and the basic idea was
that a bunch of us nations, the good guys, would get together on
a j
Nuclear deterrent force including our current friends, like
france, and our traditional friends, like germany. here's a song
about that called the mlf lullaby.
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 nineteen eighteen,
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!
Mlf
Will scare brezhnev,
I hope he is half as scared as i.
3.George Murphy
During the last election we had a good deal of fun back east
following your senatorial contest out here. i'm from
massachusetts and i feel we have a certain right to gloat over
the other states
Se massachusetts is after all the only state with three
senators. anyway, here's a salute to your new junior senator.
Hollywood's often tried to mix
Show business with politics,
From helen gahagan
To ronald reagan,
But mister murphy is the star
Who's done the best by far.
Oh gee, it's great,
At last we've got a senator who can
Really sing and dance!
We can't expect america
To win against its foes
With no one in the senate who
Can really tap his toes.
The movies that you've seen
On your television screen
Show his legislative talents at a glance.
Should americans pick crops？ george says 'no,
'cause no one but a mexican would stoop so low.'
And after all, even in egypt, the pharaohs
Had to import
Hebrew braceros.
Think of all the musicals we have in store.
Imagine： broadway melody of 1984.
Yes, now that he's a senator, he's really got the chance
To give the public
A song and dance!
4.The Folk Song Army
One type of song that has come into increasing prominence in
recent months is the folk-song of protest. you have to admire
people who sing these songs. it takes a certain amount of
courage to ge
In a coffee-house or a college auditorium and come out in favor
of the things that everybody else in the audience is against
like peace and justice and brotherhood and so on. the nicest
thing ab
Protest song is that it makes you feel so good. i have a song
here which i realise should be accompanied on a folk instrument
in which category the piano does not alas qualify so imagine if
you
That i am playing an 88 string guitar.
We are the folk song army.
Everyone of us cares.
We all hate poverty, war, and injustice,
Unlike the rest of you squares.
There are innocuous folk songs.
Yeah, but we regard 'em with scorn.
The folks who sing 'em have no social conscience.
Why they don't even care if jimmy crack corn.
If you feel dissatisfaction,
Strum your frustrations away.
Some people may prefer action,
But give me a folk song any old day.
The tune don't have to be clever,
And it don't matter if you put a coupla extra syllables into a
line.
It sounds more ethnic if it ain't good english,
And it don't even gotta rhyme--excuse me--rhyne.
Remember the war against franco？
That's the kind where each of us belongs.
Though he may have won all the battles,
We had all the good songs.
So join in the folk song army,
Guitars are the weapons we bring
To the fight against poverty, war, and injustice.
Ready! aim! sing!
5.Smut
I do have a cause though. it is obscenity. i'm for it.
unfortunately the civil liberties types who are fighting this
issue have to fight it owing to the nature of the laws as a
matter of freedom
Peech and stifling of free expression and so on but we no what's
really involved：dirty books are fun. that's all there is to it.
but you can't get up in a court and say that i suppose. it's sim
Matter of freedom of pleasure, a right which is not guaranteed
by the constitution unfortunately. anyway, since people seem to
be marching for their causes these days i have here a march for
mi
T's called...
Smut!
Give me smut and nothing but!
A dirty novel i can't shut,
If it's uncut,
And unsubt- le.
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 ut-
Terly without redeeming social importance.'
Por-
Nographic pictures i adore.
Indecent magazines galore,
I like them more
If they're hard core.
(bring on the obscene movies, murals, postcards, neckties,
Samplers, stained-glass windows, tattoos, anything!
More, more, i'm still not satisfied!)
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.
(let's face it, i love slime.)
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,
Everything is lewd.
(i could tell you things about peter pan,
And the wizard of oz, there's a dirty old man!)
I thrill
To any book like fanny hill,
And i suppose i always will,
If it is swill
And really fil
Thy.
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! (i love it)
Ah, 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!
Let's hear it for the supreme court!
Don't let them take it away!
6.Send The Marines
What with president johnson practicing escalatio on the
vietnamese and then the dominican crisis on top of that it has
been a nervous year and people have begun to feel like a
christian scientis
H appendicitis. fortunately in times of crisis just like this
america always has this number one instrument of diplomacy to
fall back on. here's a song about it.
When someone makes a move
Of which we don't approve,
Who is it that always intervenes？
U.n. and o.a.s.,
They have their place, i guess,
But first send the marines!
We'll send them all we've got,
John wayne and randolph scott,
Remember those exciting fighting scenes？
To the shores of tripoli,
But not to mississippoli,
What do we do？ we send the marines!
For might makes right,
And till they've seen the light,
They've got to be protected,
All their rights respected,
'till somebody we like can be elected.
Members of the corps
All hate the thought of war,
They'd rather kill them off by peaceful means.
Stop calling it aggression,
O we hate that expression.
We only want the world to know
That we support the status quo.
They love us everywhere we go,
So when in doubt,
Send the marines!
7.Pollution
Time was when an american about to go abroad would be warned by
his friends or the guidebooks not to drink the water. but times
have changed and now a foreigner coming to this country might be
o
D the following advice.
If you visit american city,
You will find it very pretty.
Just two things of which you must beware：
Don't drink the water and don't breathe the air.
Pollution, pollution,
They got smog and sewage and mud.
Turn on your tap and get hot and cold running crud.
See the halibuts and the sturgeons
Being wiped out by detergents.
Fish gotta swim and birds gotta fly,
But they don't last long if they try.
Pollution, pollution,
You can use the latest toothpaste,
And then rinse your mouth with industrial waste.
Just go out for a breath of air,
And you'll be ready for medicare.
The city streets are really quite a thrill.
If the hoods don't get you, the monoxide will.
Pollution, pollution,
Wear a gas mask and a veil.
Then you can breathe, long as you don't inhale.
Lots of things there that you can drink,
But stay away from the kitchen sink.
The breakfast garbage that you throw in to the bay,
They drink at lunch in san jose.
So go to the city, see the crazy people there.
Like lambs to the slaughter,
They're drinking the water
And breathing the air.
8.So Long, Mom(A Song For World War Iii)
This year we've been celebrating the hundredth anniversary of
the civil war and the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of
world war i and the twentieth anniversary of the end of world
war ii
L in all it's been a good year for the war buffs and a number of
lps and television specials have come out capitalizing on all
this 'nostalgia' with particular emphasis on the songs of
Various wars. i feel that if any songs are going to come out of
world war iii we'd better start writing them now. i have one
here. you might call it a bit of pre-nostalgia. this is the song
that
Of the boys sang as they went bravely of to world war iii.
So long, mom,
I'm off to drop the bomb,
So don't wait up for me.
But while you swelter
Down there in your shelter,
You can see me
On your tv.
While we're attacking frontally,
Watch brinkally and huntally,
Describing contrapuntally
The cities we have lost.
No need for you to miss a minute
Of the agonizing holocaust. (yeah!)
Little johnny jones he was a u.s. pilot,
And no shrinking vi'let was he.
He was mighty proud when world war three was declared,
He wasn't scared,
No siree!
And this is what he said on
His way to armageddon：
So long, mom,
I'm off to drop the bomb,
So don't wait up for me.
But though i may roam,
I'll come back to my home,
Although it may be
A pile of debris.
Remember, mommy,
I'm off to get a commie,
So send me a salami,
And try to smile somehow.
I'll look for you when the war is over,
An hour and a half from now!
9.Whatever Became Of Hubert？
I wonder how many people here tonight remember hubert humphrey.
he used to be a senator. from time to time you read something
about him pinning a medal on somebody or making a speech, or
every n
D then you read something in one of those where are they now？
columns. whatever became of deanna durbin and hubert humphrey
and so on. this became quite an issue last winter at the time of
winst
Urchill's funeral when president johnson was too ill to go and
somebody suggested that he send hubert and he said 'hubert who？'
and all america was singing...
Whatever became of hubert？
Has anyone heard a thing？
Once he shone on his own,
Now he sits home alone,
And waits for the phone to ring.
Once a fiery liberal spirit,
Ah, but now when he speaks he must clear it.
Second fiddle's a hard part, i know,
When they don't even give you a bow.
'we must protest his treatment,' hubert,
Says each newspaper reader.
As someone remarked to schubert,
'take us to your lieder.'
(sorry about that)
Whatever became of hubert？
We miss you, so tell us please.
Are you sad？ are you cross？ are you gathering moss
While you wait for the boss to sneeze？
Does lyndon, recalling when he was vp,
Say, 'i'll do unto you like they did unto me？'
Do you dream about staging a coup？
Hubert, what happened to you？
10.New Math
Some of you who have small children may have perhaps been put in
the embarrassing position of being unable to do your child's
arithmetic homework because of the current revolution in
mathematics
Hing known as the new math. so as a public service here tonight
i thought i would offer a brief lesson in the new math. tonight
we're going to cover subtraction. this is the first room i've
work
R a while that didn't have a blackboard so we will have to make
due with more primitive visual aids, as they say in the 'ad
biz.' consider the following subtraction problem, which i wi
T up here：342 - 173.
Now remember how we used to do that. three from two is nine;
carry the one, and if you're under 35 or went to a private
school you say seven from three is six, but if you're over 35
and went to
Lic school you say eight from four is six; carry the one so we
have 169, but in the new approach, as you know, the important
thing is to understand what you're doing rather than to get the
right
Er. here's how they do it now.
You can't take three from two,
Two is less than three,
So you look at the four in the tens place.
Now that's really four tens,
So you make it three tens,
Regroup, and you change a ten to ten ones,
And you add them to the two and get twelve,
And you take away three, that's nine.
Is that clear？
Now instead of four in the tens place
You've got three,
'cause you added one,
That is to say, ten, to the two,
But you can't take seven from three,
So you look in the hundreds place.
From the three you then use one
To make ten ones...
(and you know why four plus minus one
Plus ten is fourteen minus one？
'cause addition is commutative, right.)
And so you have thirteen tens,
And you take away seven,
And that leaves five...
Well, six actually.
But the idea is the important thing.
Now go back to the hundreds place,
And you're left with two.
And you take away one from two,
And that leaves...？
Everybody get one？
Not bad for the first day!
Hooray for new math,
New-hoo-hoo-math,
It won't do you a bit of good to review math.
It's so simple,
So very simple,
That only a child can do it!
Now that actually is not the answer that i had in mind, because
the book that i got this problem out of wants you to do it in
base eight. but don't panic. base eight is just like base ten
really
You're missing two fingers. shall we have a go at it？ hang on.
You can't take three from two,
Two is less than three,
So you look at the four in the eights place.
Now that's really four eights,
So you make it three eights,
Regroup, and you change an eight to eight ones,
And you add them to the two,
And you get one-two base eight,
Which is ten base ten,
And you take away three, that's seven.
Now instead of four in the eights place
You've got three,
'cause you added one,
That is to say, eight, to the two,
But you can't take seven from three,
So you look at the sixty-fours.
'sixty-four？ how did sixty-four get into it？' i hear you cry.
Well, sixty-four is eight squared, don't you see？
(well, you ask a silly question, and you get a silly answer.)
From the three you then use one
To make eight ones,
And you add those ones to the three,
And you get one-three base eight,
Or, in other words,
In base ten you have eleven,
And you take away seven,
And seven from eleven is four.
Now go back to the sixty-fours,
And you're left with two,
And you take away one from two,
And that leaves...？
Now, let's not always see the same hands.
One, that's right!
Whoever got one can stay after the show and clean the erasers.
Hooray for new math,
New-hoo-hoo-math,
It won't do you a bit of good to review math.
It's so simple,
So very simple,
That only a child can do it!
Come back tomorrow night. we're gonna do fractions.
Now i've often thought i'd like to write a mathematics text book
because i have a title that i know will sell a million copies.
i'll call it tropic of calculus.
11.Alma
Last december 13th, there appeared in the newspapers the
juiciest, spiciest, raciest obituary that has ever been my
pleasure to read. it was that of a lady name alma mahler gropius
werfel who ha
Her lifetime, managed to acquire as lovers practically all of
the top creative men in central europe, and, among these lovers,
who were listed in the obituary, by the way, which was what made
i
Interesting, there were three whom she went so far as to marry.
One of the leading composers of the day：gustav mahler, composer
of das lied von der erde and other light classics. one of the
leading architects：walter gropius of the bauhaus school of
design.
One of the leading writers： franz werfel, author of the song of
bernadette and other masterpieces. it's people like that who
make you realize how little you've accomplished. it is a
sobering tho
For example, that when mozart was my age he had been dead for
two years. it seemed to me, i'm reading this obituary, that the
story of alma was the stuff of which ballads should be made so
here
Ne.
The loveliest girl in vienna
Was alma, the smartest as well.
Once you picked her up on your antenna,
You'd never be free of her spell.
Her lovers were many and varied,
From the day she began her -- beguine.
There were three famous ones whom she married,
And god knows how many between.
Alma, tell us!
All modern women are jealous.
Which of your magical wands
Got you gustav and walter and franz？
The first one she married was mahler,
Whose buddies all knew him as gustav.
And each time he saw her he'd holler：
'ach, that is the fraulein i moost have!'
Their marriage, however, was murder.
He'd scream to the heavens above,
'i'm writing das lied von der erde,
And she only wants to make love!'
Alma, tell us!
All modern women are jealous.
You should have a statue in bronze
For bagging gustav and walter and franz.
While married to gus, she met gropius,
And soon she was swinging with walter.
Gus died, and her tear drops were copious.
She cried all the way to the altar.
But he would work late at the bauhaus,
And only came home now and then.
She said, 'what am i running？ a chow house？
It's time to change parters again.'
Alma, tell us!
All modern women are jealous.
Though you didn't even use ponds,
You got gustav and walter and franz.
While married to walt she'd met werfel,
And he too was caught in her net.
He married her, but he was carefell,
'cause alma was no bernadette.
And that is the story of alma,
Who knew how to receive and to give.
The body that reached her embalma'
Was one that had known how to live.
Alma, tell us!
How can they help being jealous？
Ducks always envy the swans
Who get gustav and walter,
You never did falter,
With gustav and walter and franz.
I know some people feel that marriage as an institution is dying
out, but i disagree and the point was driven home to me rather
forcefully not long ago by a letter i received which said： 'd
G, i love you and i cannot live without you. marry me, or i will
kill myself.' well, i was a little disturbed at that until i
took another look at the envelope and saw that it was addressed
Ccupant.
Speaking of love, one problem that recurs more and more
frequently these days in books,and plays,and movies on, is the
inability of people to communicate with the people they love.
husbands and
Who can't communicate; children who can't communicate with their
parents, and so on. and the characters in these books, and
plays, and so on, and in real life, i might add, spend hours
bemoanin
Fact that they can't communicate. i feel that if a person can't
communicate the very least he can do is to shut up.
12.Who's Next？
One of the big news items of the past year concerned the fact
that china, which we called 'red china,' exploded a nuclear
bomb, which we called a device. then indonesia announced that
S going to have one soon, and proliferation became the word of
the day. here's a song about that：
First we got the bomb, and that was good,
'cause we love peace and motherhood.
Then russia got the bomb, but that's okay,
'cause the balance of power's maintained that way.
Who's next？
France got the bomb, but don't you grieve,
'cause they're on our side (i believe).
China got the bomb, but have no fears,
They can't wipe us out for at least five years.
Who's next？
Then indonesia claimed that they
Were gonna get one any day.
South africa wants two, that's right：
One for the black and one for the white.
Who's next？
Egypt's gonna get one too,
Just to use on you know who.
So israel's getting tense.
Wants one in self defense.
'the lord's our shepherd,' says the psalm,
But just in case, we better get a bomb.
Who's next？
Luxembourg is next to go,
And (who knows？) maybe monaco.
We'll try to stay serene and calm
When alabama gets the bomb.
Who's next？
Who's next？
Who's next？
Who's next？
13.Wernher Von Braun
And what is it that put america in the forefront of the nuclear
nations？ and what is it that will make it possible to spend 20
billion dollars of your money to put some clown on the moon？
well,
S good old american know-how, that's what. as provided by good
old americans like dr. wernher von braun.
Gather round while i sing you of wernher von braun,
A man whose allegiance
Is ruled by expedience.
Call him a nazi, he won't even frown.
'ha, nazi schmazi,' says wernher von braun.
Don't say that he's hypocritical,
Say rather that he's apolitical.
'once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down？
That's not my department,' says wernher von braun.
Some have harsh words for this man of renown,
But some think our attitude
Should be one of gratitude,
Like the widows and cripples in old london town
Who owe their large pensions to wernher von braun.
You too may be a big hero,
Once you've learned to count backwards to zero.
'in german oder english i know how to count down,
Und i'm learning chinese,' says wernher von braun.
14.The Vatican Rag
Another big news story of year concerned the ecumenical council
in rome, known as vatican ii. among the things they did in an
attempt to make the church more commercial was to introduce the
vern
R into portions of the mass, to replace latin, and to widen
somewhat the range of music permissible in the liturgy, but i
feel that if they really want to sell the product, in this
secular age,
They ought to do is to redo some of the liturgical music in
popular song forms. i have a modest example here. it's called
the vatican rag.
First you get down on your knees,
Fiddle with your rosaries,
Bow your head with great respect,
And genuflect, genuflect, genuflect!
Do whatever steps you want, if
You have cleared them with the pontiff.
Everybody say his own
Kyrie eleison,
Doin' the vatican rag.
Get in line in that processional,
Step into that small confessional,
There, the guy who's got religion'll
Tell you if your sin's original.
If it is, try playin' it safer,
Drink the wine and chew the wafer,
Two, four, six, eight,
Time to transubstantiate!
So get down upon your knees,
Fiddle with your rosaries,
Bow your head with great respect,
And genuflect, genuflect, genuflect!
Make a cross on your abdomen,
When in rome do like a roman,
Ave maria,
Gee it's good to see ya,
Gettin' ecstatic an'
Sorta dramatic an'
Doin' the vatican rag!
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