Tom Lehrer - So Long Mom (A Song for WW III) - with intro

[@PANDORASBOXRELEASE]

"When the war is over, in an hour and a half from now" was probably the best and most terrifying line in that song.

[@squiglemcsquigle8414]

my favourite line of his

[@licas3214]

Why? Do help me, i really don't understand

[@alexschalk5439]

@@licas3214 Mutually Assured Destruction. It would not take more than a couple hours for a global scale nuclear war to completely wipe out the major countries. And the rest of earth's population would follow shortly in the upcoming nuclear winter

[@alexschalk5439]

@The Guardsman It's a pretty strongly supported hypothesis though. The vast amount of people do not have resources to surivve very long at all in those condiitions. And even th ose within secure shelters, their prospects are not amazing.

[@mitchellwright5478]

@@alexschalk5439 we will all go together when we go….

[@montanaelkwhisperer1744]

The funniest part was him saying "if we're going to have WW3 songs...we better write them now!" And the audience COMPLETELY missed the joke! Priceless.

[@gergokun7154]

I might have missed too, what do you mean?

[@funky7692]

@@gergokun7154 After WW3 there would not be anyone left to write songs about the war

[@unematrix]

No they didn't. Over here in Europe we don't laugh, scream, and clap every time someone makes a joke on stage. They got the joke. They just didn't do any of the weird 'Murican things because this was made in Copenhagen and not Freedomland.

[@lordcawdorofmordor2549]

No I think they got it. You can here nervous laughter afterwards.

[@chrismanuel9768]

They got it. They were just scared it was less a joke and more a factual statement.

[@DROPKICK500gaming]

"First war to be televised" "I hope we have color TV by then" All I can think of here is the gulf war

[@piotrd.4850]

[..] You know my favourtie part of that war? It was the first war we ever had that was on every channel plus cable [..] (c) George Carlin

[@LazyIRanch]

I was thinking of Viet Nam. I was born in 1961, and that war was on the TV every damn day during most of my childhood. I remember the day that war was declared "over", and ran to tell my parents that I just heard it on the radio. Then I asked what happens now? Up until then, I didn't realize it could have an ending.

[@KameariKillScreen]

Tom is still alive. Isn't that great?

[@KomaCord]

It is.

[@bulletproofmum]

Kameari Kill Screen While I consider myself a sensible and non - superstitious type, 2016 is not over yet. Let's not take risks tempting fate eh?

[@bulletproofmum]

Kameari Kill Screen it is of course fantastic. Just, this year... enough already.

[@amperzand9162]

Jeeze, right? 2016 really, really has not been a good year.

[@steven_003]

I'm 13 and hope that I can meet him in the future!

[@pallasproserpina4118]

This man was way ahead on his time.

[@squiglemcsquigle8414]

nah he sung this at the height of the cold war fits very well into that setting

[@marshin209]

Or fits.even better now

[@violetninja]

And into my Fallout 4 playlist it goes.

[@LazyIRanch]

I'm not a gamer, but my 27 year old son is. I think it's cool as hell that he's digging that music that was popular even before MY time! I love that he became an instant Danny Kaye fan, just like I did the first time I saw and heard him. As a teenager in the disco era, I was an Ella Fitzgerald fan. I kept it a secret until one day my best friend was over and discovered my albums. She was thrilled, because she loved her too! Dad walked by my room, heard us singing Gershwin tunes along with Ella. He smiled and said something like, "Oh, these kids and their crazy "modern" music!" Next time Rosie came over, she brought Billie Holliday records and I fell in love with another great Diva from years ago. I miss my friend, gone too soon. RIP, Rosie.

[@Billy-I-Am-Not]

"an hour and a half from now" that gets me every time

[@ienekevanhouten4559]

What a treat! My husband had his albums when we met, in 1963. Amazing how timeless he is.

[@LazyIRanch]

Well, no wonder you fell in love with your dear husband! He must be smart, and has a great sense of humor. That's a prince in my book. The love of my life had Firesign Theatre comedy albums, and he was an amateur magician and little kids adored him.

[@zhonlino]

color television by that time.. what a future man hahaha he even created song for the future lol

[@gunnerr8476]

not really tho,color film already invented but need more improvement

[@vencelistce9385]

>color is colour stupid yank

[@knightofficer]

color is more efficient stupid wank

[@vencelistce9385]

knightofficer savage.

[@littlesnowflakepunk855]

I'm glad for some of his more granular time-specific references he will go out of his way to explain them for those of us in the future

[@G6JPG]

If you mean the Brinkley and Huntley reference, I think that was more that he was performing in Scandinavia, where they wouldn't have been known. (On/At his US performances, he didn't explain that.)

[@methrat4456]

I think we can all agree that those who have listened to his works will never forget them. His songs sound wonderful and will be remembered as decades come and go.

[@duncanyourmate2433]

An extraordinary talented man, way before his time, I hope that we can keep laughing at his predictions, in this unstable world of 2018

[@harman1957]

Lehrer survived the world war and covid pandemic. Bro won the genetic lottery

[@donteller46]

Maybe just a little more relevant to day than any time in the last 30 years.

[@gspendlove]

I didn't think it was possible for this song to get any better, but seeing Tom sing it with that little smirk on his face just made my decade!

[@radioinitial1409]

1:23 We have! I believe we are ready!

[@annbush1826]

This glorious man-part elf, part seer, and a brilliant pianist, is the 20th century’s most articulate voice. He has made his work available to all-a great teaching tool 👍

[@6funswede]

Thank you, These twelve songs - never commercially released on video - are easily some of the rarest recordings on KZbin. Now they're in HQ, and it's a free ride. Spread the word :-)

[@topy706]

i can twitter about world war 3 now, awesome

[@lsdecaria1]

Now you can

[@madelinelewis1910]

that yaaaaaay killed me 😂

[@leemumbray-williams2440]

It’s good to know that WW3 will only last an hour and a half! Thanks for the reassurance Tom!

[@vaiyt]

Tom Lehrer's music ages like a Tolkien elf. It just gets wiser with time.

[@LadyBirdieBop]

I've seen a few vids of his songs that are just the songs with lyrics thrown up or random fitting visuals, but listening to the intro in front of it just makes it soooooo much funnier to me.

[@GasPipeJimmy]

This was his Oslo performance! Great and thank you.

[@bseaman2000]

Thanks so much to Tom Lehrer and whoever filmed and then posted the Copenhagen concert. It's wonderful!

[@estherschrager1846]

This is chillingly appropriate today…

[@liberty461]

Oh man! My dad had all of his albums - what a blast from the past. I love this guy! Thanks for posting these!

[@masterpython]

This has aged so well

[@6funswede]

You know, Shout! Factory didn´t want to pay for the rights to release the DVD in Europe. Get the free Mpeg Streamclip (for PC and Mac) and make your own PAL version if you buy the CD/DVD: It´s not very difficult.

[@Tindometari]

Wonder what he's thinking tonight ... :/

[@0RedTree0]

i have no idea how you got these amazing videos but thankyou so much for posting them!!! XD

[@mtrtv1897]

If you like this, take a look at "Watch World War 3 on pay TV". Goes into the same direction.

[@j.jnerdamy320]

Well, time to learn piano. If WWIII is about to happen, might as well learn how to play this

[@chrismac2234]

Well done Adam Kay for bringing these back to life.

[@pdxeditor]

A very appropriate tune for the current mess being faced right now. Two tiny handed leaders seeking a nuclear pissing match could bring this to fruition.

[@radioactivedinosaur42]

El Bearsidente citation extremely fucking needed

[@peterschulze4975]

He wasn't so wrong with watching the war in the TV if you think for the vietnam war a few years after he sung that song. And 1.5 hours is quite short, but one of the Israeli wars was over in seven days. I'd say: Lehrer was a man with a very sarcastic but precise vision of the world.

[@alwinpriven2400]

this will be relevant in the next 50 years or so I think (But not hope)

[@ThePCeristas]

Fun how the songs of the olden days predict the modern day so well

[@rankin...bassxx7628]

I like this! Thanks Tom! 😊

[@6funswede]

This video is now out on DVD. Please read the updated video description or visit the channel page!

[@grant_____]

convinced that this song is gonna come in handy some time in the very near future

[@G4Br1ELCLM]

"I certainly hope we have color television by then" Better yet Tom, digital TV and internet live stream. Now that Trump is off to get the US into WW III.

[@Jorvaskrr]

Clinton, a "hawk" ? I'd say she's more of a magpie.

[@liamhamilton704]

I like these Songsbe cause you see A Different side of this Person thru the SonG

[@andreibratosin]

HOW IS THIS NOT IN FALLOUT?

[@Scoopicus]

This song is both hilarious and quite sad, when you think about it.

[@CyberRose410]

What an eerily prescient song...

[@abisheldon5208]

We've been in trouble since 1945

[@sigma9r]

Unfortunately, this generation doesn't understand..."Good night David, Good night Chet"!! Much less, "That's the way it is..."

[@kenetickups6146]

>unforntunatly because god forbid people be raised withdifferent media

[@theangryholmesian4556]

And a shame your generation doesn't understand "Too bad that didn't kill me." Or maybe...people are raised with different forms of media. Shocking.

[@Stolanis]

Do you mean to say that generations younger than yourself don't understand the existential dread of potentially being only moments away from global nuclear destruction? Because I assure you, that is something I think about on a semi-regular basis - but try not to worry about because ultimately what good would worrying do? When death comes, it comes - it matters not how much one worries, or indeed what generation one is. Death levels all, including those who have an ignorant attitude to the youth of the day.

[@alfieomega]

*RDR2 sounds intensify*

[@Plasticcaz]

Yes it should have been as well as "We shall all go together when we go!" XDDDDDDDD

[@emcarpio]

REMEMBER MOMMY IM OFF TO GET A COMMIE

[@jpguillot]

@6funswede Just ordered it - can't wait!

[@StLennyBruce]

Fantastic!

[@duncanyourmate2433]

brilliance , with unforunate ,application to todays whole worldwide mess ,

[@megelizabeth9492]

John Bolton...

[@cynthiasimpson931]

My dad used to watch Huntley and Brinkley when I was a youngster.

[@MikesOrganicVideos]

Another video performance by the GREAT Tom Lehrer. what a treat! Growing up in my house, my Mom played her 2 or 3 Tom Lehrer albuns constantly...This was another "Family Favorite" I will of course give this a place of honor on my KZbin Channel; MikesOrganicVideos!

[@zotooin3818]

Actually, according to Lehrer, many people feared that it may be possible, but few actually thought it would occur, because "Not even politicians are that stupid"

[@swedsteve93]

They couldn't believe WW1 would happen at the time. People were making to much money blah blah disrupting the economic situation wouldn't be worth the war blah blah all no one will attack with all the alliances we have blah blah if there is war it won't last long, it'll be over by Christmas ect ect.

[@6funswede]

@MrsNorris55, how nice to hear that (and I`m not an official promoter profiting on this). Truth be told, the rediscovered Lehrer 1967 video performance was released in Los Angeles in April, and it really is the comedy Christmas gift of the year in the United States (and elsewhere :-)

[@helensearle1896]

Still can't find it, but I assume you're right. Thanks for the heads-up about 'Still with AND on' btw, it's lovely. (Sorry for lateness.)

[@deniskhaidarov9166]

The time has come, dudes

[@6funswede]

@gspendlove, oh thank you, I loved your comment. Look, don´t get put off by my stupid username "6funswede". Click on that name and visit the channel, no crap there, the channel is Lehrer only. And then email the link for his song "Send the Marines" to 10 friends while you enjoy the line "to the shores of Tripoli". That really IS good satire:-)

[@Q.Q.Kachoo]

Now I want to watch "Dr. Strangelove".

[@venomousfringe]

Perhaps the most joyful song about WWIII

[@MsSarjen]

@CyberRose410 War on color tv? I guess he knows now how right he was.

[@Ninio1231]

it's 2020.. who else is watching knowing the war might finally happen this year?

[@Languslangus]

Ah yes, everione likes a good war.

[@theangryholmesian4556]

Tom Lehrer, Bo Burnham, and Tim Minchin. The holy trinity.

[@lolmaker777]

well he is lucky, we got collor tv now and WW3 hassnt started yet

[@lagrangepoint9386]

Let's wait for colour holograms.

[@nathanmartyn2403]

Well I guess you will be right about the coloured televison part

[@leemumbray-williams2440]

Hello Tom, looking forward to hearing from you soon but I’m still baffled by why you keep sending me messages in what appears to be Turkish, a language I can’t understand at all! And why do you, as an American, seem to have developed a serious interest in English soccer⚽️ Rather than a more sensible interest in⚾️ (I’m assuming you’re still a RedSox supporter.). Clem & Piers still long to visit Fenway Park so maybe one day I’ll buy them a couple of airline tickets to Boston...Anyhow, hope life is looking up for you and do ring me soon - landline number is best!

[@NormanShere]

Weird Al has always said that his two favorite idols growing up were Weird Al and Allan Sherman

[@MURDERPILLOW.]

Dear god its a time loop

[@theq4602]

We'll eventually be singing this when England leaves the EU.

[@thelegendaryplushy6394]

Uh oh

[@zotooin3818]

I can't remember exactly, but I think it's a video on 6funswede's channel. Try "Still with AND on KZbin"

[@1992Medusa]

he's right ya know. People actually tought at most wars that they would win very fast because their country was 'superiour' to the enemy.

[@kellynolen498]

Wow 9 years ago well i think ww3 would be a nuke war so it wouldn't last long so short in fact you would need to make the song before hand

[@yaumelepire6310]

Oddly toppical...

[@jrojassengard2586]

Hey, we HAVE got color television!

[@helensearle1896]

Oh, right. Like I said, I wasn't there, I've probably just been reading the wrong sort of book. Happy to accept the correction. Was this from an interview he did or what?

[@leoniesamadi8691]

Lol I always knew ww3 memes where always in

[@helensearle1896]

Yes, a lot of his songs are like that. Bit more complex than the witless pointing and laughing you get from... some people (no n. no p.d.). From what I've read (I wasn't around back then) people regarded nuclear war as if not inevitable, at least extremely likely - this was only a few years after the Cuban missile crisis, after all. And perhaps it's relevant that Lehrer had worked at Los Alamos and knew that, contra some of the military people, a H-bomb can do quite a lot of damage.

[@MrTrackman100]

The Ultimate Black Humor Song!

[@teenherofilms]

This song is specifically appropriate with regard to my saying "so long" to my love interest who lives in a foreign country. And, while I´m not off to drop the bomb, I´m off on Friday to another country to live there, following in the wake of having been rejected by this woman who initially invited me to come and live with her in her country and then, abruptly, closed the door in my face for reasons unknown. So, "So long X, I´m off to drop the fishing pole in the Algarve, so don´t wait up for me! Maybe "you can watch me on your TV" inasmuch as I plan to revive my talk show again once I move back to Los Angeles around a year from now. So, "so long" x, I´m off to the Algarve, so "don´t wait up for me". In fact, don´t even f..ing bother!!!!

[@TheJonasMacedo]

This song need be in the next Fallout game

[@lolinyolo5641]

This reminds me of fallout songs

[@feelsindifferentman1104]

Fallout 4? Radio?

[@ProFireHazards]

#2022

[@redryan305]

Almost had a WWIII this year lol

[@ethanjones5913]

How did you contact him to make sure you could post these?

[@GasPipeJimmy]

You are not a big reader, are you Ethan?

[@necropollo4552]

+Ethan Jones Tom is long gone, passed away...

[@DeeFenestration]

+P a x H a x D r a w I think he;s still alive. He's rather old, but still alive.

[@necropollo4552]

Dee Fenestration TIME FOR GOOGLE!

[@gaberodriguez3732]

+Dee Fenestration yea hes still alive but really old

[@brideofsnape2046]

Rather topical tune at the moment, wouldn't you say?

[@GabrielWilsonCollins]

This song should have been in the Fallout 3 soundtrack!!!

[@hereticseraphim73]

Wait did tommy boy just almost predict WWIII

[@yuckyyucky9734]

this is too relevant

[@OilyAlmond]

I didnt know they didnt have color tv in 1967. The more you know i guess eh?

[@Dovaz921]

***** when did they become common?

[@Dominian1]

Colour TV was first shown 1954 and it took them the first years to get recording devices to work with colour tapes. After that the first TV shows could be taped and it already was the early 60's. Colour TV became a normal thing during the late sixties and just because something was recorded in colour, that doesn't mean it was seen in colour by the audience. Television sets weren't cheap and colour TV was a bit like HD-TV. It's been around for a while but you still see people's TVs without it, because it's only about 10 years ago, that TV adapted the technology, even though you might one day say "I can't believe they didn't have HD tv in 2010!" and then you see that it was invented way before, but in 2010 people were actually just still getting the technology.

[@mrfahrenheit8417]

Ahem. Gentlemen

[@luispereira1933]

check the likes

[@Languslangus]

☢

[@downstrike3855]

World wars were miscounted, so it's long past due to stop calling the next world war WW III: 1. The Seven Years War 2. The War of 1812 combined with the Napoleonic Wars 3. WW I 4. WW II 5. The Cold War 6. The War of Terrorism 7. The Russo-Ukranian War The current world war may be recognized by nations from every inhabited continent sending military aid to Ukraine, and thereby fighting against Russia by proxy.

[@G6JPG]

I rather like "I'm off to get a commie, so send me a salami"!

[@masterbaf]

Tom Lehrer is a Jew?

[@nicobambino191]

Trumps song

[@vlaznyccc]

Kuma Sama Hillary's song

[@arthurborges7362]

Новороссия USA song

[@stephenabm7779]

An anti - war Commie song.