Tom Lehrer - We Will All Go Together When We Go - with intro

[@garfocusalternate]

"I always like to end on a positive note, so here is a rousing, uplifting song, which is guaranteed to cheer you up." "When you attend a funeral..."

[@syahmikadira6832]

You sing MCR's 'Welcome to the Black Parade'.Sorry to ruin the mood but I just have to.

[@Merennulli]

Glad our world leaders decided to revive this to full relevance again. Wouldn't want the younger generation to miss out.

[@rbck8826]

You win the comment section.

[@DopaminedotSeek3rcolonthree]

Gotta love feeling the aftershock of good ol' Cold War paranoia! It's a blast!

[@cait6461]

Yuup 😅 Im laughing but not haha laughing

[@FourthDerivative]

"Nearly three billion"? Damn, this really was back in the day.

[@thrupert]

+FourthDerivative 3 bill to 7 bill. Thats a lot of seck

[@MrWolfSnack]

1956

[@MrWolfSnack]

Humans have no control over their reproduction and all of them have false ideals that they all need to have children when they don't.

[@savannahstone7184]

MrWolfSnack work to increase access to birth control and sexual education instead of complaining :^) consider the fact that lots of underprivileged ppl have no access to these resources :^)

[@andrewness]

Edohiguma Actually population growth is almost entirely due to the fact people are living longer worldwide, the birth rate has been stable for quite a while.

[@alamedavigilante]

An anthem for these times. And Tom is even still alive to sing it.

[@Falcrist]

For now...

[@Machetero1240]

Cheer up) Kyiv is on the line. Song is great (as most from Tom).

[@Rekhyt1]

Why has no one ever told me of this man? A musical genius.

[@__-cl2qb]

pjd412 how old are you

[@MarkProffitt]

In the old days we only heard about good stuff and imagine this, if there wasn't anything good we didn't listen or watch anything. 😲

[@MirimawrPowys]

I guess you had bad luck--- he's amazing as a mathematian and a thinker too!

[@michaelcraig9449]

@@__-cl2qb That does not matter. As long as there are nukes this song is relevant

[@rsr789]

And he's still alive! 95 years young.

[@6funswede]

assimilatedMe262, Lehrer IS still a comedic genius. In an interview he said: "always predict the worst, and you'll be hailed as a prophet" :-)

[@Enceladeans]

As much as I love Fallout 4's soundtrack, they really dropped the ball not including this. Seems exactly like the kind of thing Tom Lehrer would sign off on too.

[@paulingols-staker6475]

Why waste a good song on a shit game?

[@clientsname2933]

That is true.

[@loganmcleod3593]

The worst part is this song is public domain and they wouldn’t have needed to pay a dime to him. Not that he would even care. He’s very generous with people using his work.

[@Xangura]

This song is featured in Fallout New Vegas!

[@ShadowCourier]

@@Xangura It isn't you liar.

[@6funswede]

Er...I have talked to Tom Lehrer, but I do not know him as a person. He has been very kind and cool. I´m not saying that he has "endorsed" my actions in the archives of my employer, but he has not asked for videos to be deleted or for me to be punished. The forgotten stuff on the channel was not available anywhere when the first videos were posted in 2007. Click on my user name to enjoy all of them (and some links).

[@spitfire_saint4428]

Seems like a chill dude honestly

[@owojohnson1115]

@@spitfire_saint4428 Ye

[@IoEstasCedonta]

There's something amazing about this song. Somehow, it manages to be genuinely uplifting.

[@professorbutters]

Well, that's because it's modeled on an old timey gospel song.

[@Shaw4123]

@@professorbutters Do you know which one?

[@robinmotz5432]

For those who don't know him, he got a bachelor's degree and a Ph.D. in.math from Harvard and was appointed instructor in.mathematics there, but he preferred doing this.

[@RadicalCaveman]

Well, as he once explained in his patter during one of his concerts, "Why should I do this when I could earn, what, $3,000 a year teaching?"

[@johanbrand8601]

​@@RadicalCavemanwas $3000 a year a lot of money back then?

[@theeguy9022]

@@johanbrand8601 A dollar back then would be worth 9.42 today, so it was a hefty bit of money, though I'm not sure how the economy faired back then, so maybe it wasn't the best.

[@stepankasoukupova1398]

Dudes a fucking legend

[@hweigel528]

As a child of the 90's, I find it bizarre to think that back when this was made, there were only "nearly 3 billion" people on Earth. Slightly more on-topic, Tom Lehrer is amazingly talented.

[@k.o.hakala2112]

Ten years later, we are all back to the future!

[@glowsticks9261]

It's crazy compared to the numbers now that seems so little

[@pontiuspilot5887]

There were 2.5 billion people, 1951 figures. So possibly 2.billion people when I was born in Jan 1948, In my 75 years we now have 4 times the world population! Peace

[@LH-uv3jw]

I m same age as you, l have the feeling that Biden and his lots are sleep walking into WW3. What a way to go together! 😮

[@huntonpeck]

This song seems to me like a spiritual ancestor to Monty Python's song "Always Look on The Bright Side of Life". A happy, jolly sing-along song about death.

[@dreamersdisease2481]

It's like every song you can listen to and enjoy it

[@annesmith9642]

Happy 96th Birthday, Tom Lehrer!

[@gdj6298]

I was in the band for a production of "Tom Foolery", for which he wrote additional lyrics - in the middle of this song, there was an addendum (Colla voce) (Dramatic chord) You will all proceed to your respective Valhallas ! Go immediately, Do not pass Go, Do not collect 200 dollars ! And we will all go together....etc

[@G6JPG]

I'm pretty sure that wasn't added for Tom Foolery: it was on the original TWTYTW LP. This clip is, I think, from a performance he did in Denmark (!), and for some reason he didnt include that sub-verse.

[@gabrote42]

That was on the original pretty sure.

[@Warweazel]

"I always to end on a positive note." So here's a song about you and your friend dying in an atomic blast.

[@Foxrich99]

well, at least they won't be whining about your death

[@anonUK]

War weazel Black humo(u)r. After 4 years of Trump, you'll undefstand it.

[@Warweazel]

I get it, I was pointing out the irony.

[@Jorvaskrr]

8 years*

[@PandaTCG]

Yea that's the joke.

[@tomaspaulicek3866]

Kubrick originally intended to end Dr. Strangelove with a scene of a food fight in the warroom. I would love to see it with this song playing in the background!

[@piegunman]

12 days to midnight would have been better with this

[@G6JPG]

It would have been good, though I think the choice of Vera/WMA was also genius, and suitably quirky. To the extent that I always think of those shots when I hear that song.

[@manthasagittarius1]

There is just something so incredibly heartening about the idea that there is a kid who is still in school who knows this song, and would go out singing it to celebrate a bomb scare.

[@Yossus]

I stumbled across Tom Lehrer a few months ago... I'm no stranger to satire, and so I first was astonished how strongly many German cabaret artists are influenced by him (compare "Loveparade" with Poisoning pidgeons...)... then it struck me how recent all of his songs still are, and couldn't believe how long ago they were written. The world doesn't change after all... Lehrer is one of the most amazing and intelligent humans ever, and I salute his genius. (Also you for uploading - thanks!)

[@mayanandrobertschraders587]

As German, French and Dutch cabaret has been going on for at least a century, the influence they and great satirists such as Tom Lehrer had on each other may well have gone in the other direction

[@proximacentauri2684]

This is actually uplifting. Imagine all your friends and neighbours are shitting themselves waiting to die in a blaze and then this comes out and says "well even if it does happen, no one will be sad, right?"

[@nikkeisimmer8795]

Proves once and for all, that you don't have to have a foul mouth to be funny. Thanks Tom. You're a satirical genius.

[@sylligurl129]

But check out his song Smut

[@elizabethpeters4805]

When You Are Old and Grey is a linguistic masterpiece!

[@G6JPG]

@@elizabethpeters4805 So is this one: rhyming "funeral" with "sooner or l-", and "tragic" with "adjec-" for example. He's a very clever man.

[@munch481]

I am a fan of Tom for many, many years. In fact, our daughter (now an adult) sang Tom's songs when she was a small child. Sometimes people thought it was "terribly shocking." (Like "PIGEONS") but she has all recordings of his songs. You are never TOO YOUNG TO LOVE TOM! I have not met him but know all about him as a MATH professor. How do you like "The Elements?"

[@toothfairy10133]

lmao dad accidentally introduced me to lehrer when i was 8 because i was super into chemistry & had memorized the periodic table and he showed me the elements song. i ended up looking up the rest of his songs on his laptop while everyone else was asleep (cause i didnt have my own phone back then) and perhaps disturbed some people by being a very small, very polite, very studious child who sung about poisoning pigeons when i thought i was alone. 19 now and i still know all the lyrics to my favourites!

[@sarahhearn-vonfoerster7401]

Just too,too fabulous! I had forgotten how great Tom is. It has been a while since college days spent laughing with him.

[@G6JPG]

"Bright" ones, of course ... (oh, that razor-blade. Quoted - in 1970s/'80s form - by Fascinating Aida, whose main composer [Dillie Keane] freely admits Tom is one of her muses.)

[@anonUK]

Still blistering, even 45 years later.

[@johnswanson217]

Yes Tom. We're all going down together right now, just as you said :) What an I told you so moment!

[@rebeccajunell5527]

Way back in high school, I was introduced to Tom Lehrer through my Chemistry teacher sharing the Elements song. I was curious, so I sought out more of Tom's music to listen to - something my Chemistry teacher might not have wanted for a young-ish teenager... 😂 While I appreciate the song and his delivery of it, it gave me nightmares back then and is bringing them back now... 😅

[@Kuj2YY]

The rhymes are brilliant!

[@WildBillCox13]

More than 40 years later and I still hum this, while watching the news. Thanks for the post, man, and GL and HF to Professor Tom Lehrer!

[@tbthomas5117]

I have been a Tom Lehrer fan since 1958-ish (thanks to my Dad), who bought Tom's albums when they were selling for $3.50 each. I still have both of them. I was fascinated by the Devil Piano Player with the pointed tail! Thank you Tom, for your [dangerous] genius!;) Just FYI, for several early years, not quite 10 years old, whenever I listened to this song (WWAGT), I thought the line "When you see that ICBM" was a naughty scatological reference. (After the Cuban Missile Crisis, I figured it out.) Oh yeah, at about 12 years old, I figured out what it meant to 'solicit for my sister' -- possibly at boy scout camp, helped out by one of the counselors. One last useless comment: I loved watching the Denmark concert, particularly the subtle way you manged to get the audience to stop with the synchronized clapping after each song -- without resorting to expletives.

[@tangogrrl]

67? wow. I heard this on Dr. Demento in the mid 80s-- never knew what he looked like til KZbin! So thank you !

[@pucknanimal]

Gee, I believe I'm much happier now that I've listened to this inspiring song. Tom is absolutely hysterically funny. Acerbic wit speckled with grains of truth. Yep, if the bomb drops, we'll all "go together..."

[@HBMHD]

This song should be in every Fallout game lol.

[@lknew5659]

and our election this year

[@Xangura]

This song is featured in Fallout New Vegas

[@Nyerguds]

@@Xangura That's "referenced", not "featured". "featured" would mean the song is actually _played_ in the game.

[@Louva3]

funny how this song is the only thing that cheers me up right now

[@mysterioso2006]

Who else thinks he's incredibly dashing? :3

[@KSignalEingang]

I don't think you can even get that haircut any more.

[@johnhalley7114]

He looks like Dennis the Menace's father. In a good way, I mean!

[@miramora240]

Simping for him

[@christopherlundgren3499]

Yeah, I always had a thing for him lol nerdy, academic, maybe a little more posh than we're used to these days, obviously funny and evil. Yeah, I'm glad I didn't have him as a professor, or there'd be some Indiana Jones in the classroom (eyelids and all) kinda thing going down

[@jimfrazin2114]

Very handsome and adorable

[@oppieoops]

Mathematician, teacher, singer/songwriter, satirist: Coolest nerd of all time.

[@6funswede]

@buzzair1001, this is true. Having worked in the press for almost 40 years I rarely use that expression. But Tom Lehrer is a genius, and that's not an opinion, it's a fact. Thank you.

[@thatjeff7550]

Man, the audio is PERFECT considering how old this vid is. And I'm not referring to it being 14 years old on YT.

[@Jackenack]

Please be in a Fallout 4 video or in Fallout 4 itself. Also, I'm pretty sure this song is going into Fallout NV: Project Brazil.

[@michaellhoover94]

MatterZ there was a mission that's title was an homage to this in New Vegas

[@guiltyguildleader]

+MatterZ This should be in the credits. The opening belongs to The Inkspots.

[@Knight_Of_Eleum_Loyce]

I'm sure there are mods that let you add your own music to Fallout 4 (they exist for FO3 & FO:NV).

[@YourFriendlyOfficeAssistant]

Who's amazed we're still alive two years in?

[@ncox001]

Such a fun song, especially considering when it was written

[@HighlightsCubed]

Never trust the "Game link" on a Nerd³'s Hell video

[@tula6788]

Never trust Dan

[@Derp311]

Tula Claxton-Miller We all go together when Dan tells us to.

[@RaidValency]

HighlightsCubed - Nerd³ Highlights Rule no. 1: Don't blow up the shinny's. Rule no. 2: Dan lies

[@ArfyPlus]

HighlightsCubed - Nerd³ Highlights Rule No.1: The Doct...The Dan lies.

[@antares202]

HighlightsCubed - Nerd³ Highlights At least it's better than the game...

[@AxelWerner]

Who knew that with a circus clown as president and a KGB dictator we will see and feel these moments again, we all hoped they were gone since the late 80s. Here we go again. 2mins left to char all together in a global incineration. Man made. What an achievement.

[@atticusgalt10]

Time to dust this one off, again.

[@countumga]

I don't understand why none of his songs are in any Fallout games. I'd love to hear him sing while firing off Mini-Nukes, this man is bloody brilliant!

[@capnzilog]

Still alive at 95, God bless the inventor of the Jello Shot!

[@Kijnn]

Mathematician, satirical genius and inventor of the Jello Shot. This man lived his life.

[@musicformonsters]

My Dad loved him- I grew up on this- he is brilliant-

[@cphill2012]

Heard this for the first time on some public radio station out in New Mexico while doing geology field camp. This song and the elements song are both great!

[@ChristophBurschka]

The "three billion" line really drives home how old this is.

[@23CoSo]

An outstanding talent. I well remember him from my youth in the sixties.

[@PracticalEmo]

Oh how i realize his genius and im spreading this arond our school he is quite the comedic song writer that even this generation can still apprciate

[@b.g.1764]

I am so glad Nerd 3 showed me this awesome song!!!

[@PandaStripes]

Boris Gospodinov you mean nerd³

[@johnmcgee2647]

When we all go from a pandemic our options will be academic, we will all go together when we go.

[@johnnytwoeyes2897]

i honestly thought tom lehrer was like 25 today, his humour, voice everything about him seems so modern. i was genuinely shocked when i learned he's 96

[@VDotBlank]

Gotta thank a teacher for introducing me to this song

[@famebrightstudio451]

I love this man so much.

[@6funswede]

@loolylooly81, thank you so much! The truth here is that before a single "wisdom video" came online in 2007 I had already studied most of those (older) links to get to know my victim, er..., subject. Lehrer OK'd the channel in 2008 and again in 2010 and my hope is that more Americans will learn to appreciate his timeless comedy songs. Spread the link and the word ;D

[@NinjaPwnagexP]

Tom Lehrer is undisputedly a genius. He makes me laugh so much yet makes me think at the same time. My favourite is National Brotherhood Week. Thanks 6funswede for uploading this!

[@chaosmilk2316]

im playing this at my funeral

[@PilkScientist]

ChaosMilk same, considering if it's relevant it's gonna be the same funeral

[@TheScribeofLight]

Glad I wasn't the only one who thought that! I am a great Fascinating Aida fan, and have seen them whenever I get the chance. Dillie Keane is, as you say, a tremendous lyricist, even if more people know the songs than who wrote them.

[@KateG-s8c]

Umm just been reminded of this- i remember standing round the piano with my family as a small child singing this 70s .....? Anyone else?

[@SnifferRiffle]

Absolute brilliance. :)

[@metalltitan]

Artists like that in the 50s and 60s were wild and got away with the craziest stuff. Not just in the States and UK.

[@mdwhoythoyt]

Ay yo, first of maybe the last to listen in 2022. I

[@munch481]

See above, how our daughter sang Tom's songs when she was a small child. She is now an adult and still loves his songs.

[@hayleehaux2458]

Original Bo Burnham

[@ninadesianti9587]

This song is so relatable now. Scary!

[@bernardobiritiki]

😂 Good one DAN

[@volcadizt4857]

Love Tom Lehrer's songs I knew about him then I was replaying Fallout NV and there's an abundance of references about him

[@francisbradley1027]

I am 63 years old, OMG . I grew up listening to the records , I had know clues, very satirical/humorist stories.can we learn?thank you.

[@lukeusername]

This isn't the steam refunds page.

[@syahmikadira6832]

I was also expecting that.

[@F1zhsTourturedSoul]

Beautiful

[@DarthShortStick]

I love this! I find it funny & oddly true ("if" that time ever comes). Satire, the wise person's humor. :)

[@funkymushr0.0m19]

Funny enough this song is stuck in my head again...

[@gar-feels4438]

So far the only man to my knowledge to make an upbeat song about Nuclear Annihilation

[@KitchenSinkSoup]

thanks dan

[@oo8020]

It did, it truly did. Just what I needed

[@6funswede]

@uliczka, true, but Lehrer decided to remove that verse in later versions, saying that he felt the song was too long. So this is what the Scandinavian audiences got in 1967.

[@nbenefiel]

I grew up on his songs. National Brotherhood Week is my favorite.

[@harveywachtel6163]

As mgabrysSF6 months ago noted, this performance apparently antedates the addition of the two bridges ("down by the old maelstrom/there'll be a storm before the calm" and "you will all go directly to your respective valhallas/go directly, do not pass go, do not collect two hundred dollars"). I never realized until now that those weren't part of the original.But I think that while people are (reasonably) guffawing at the monopoly joke, they may be missing one of the most bitter jibes in the piece: the word "respective". Even in the death throes of the human race, Lehrer indicates, we will still be letting ourselves be divided by religion.

[@corypollard]

The intentionally off key bits are my most favorite of all....

[@ur7maa]

Tom Lehrer is the man who made it ok to make jokes about the things that upset us - thus helping us deal with them better.

[@AltereggoLol1]

Before the end of this vid, I had no idea people were lined up in rows watching him perform--I always pictured it being a club with well-soused groups at dinner tables.

[@G6JPG]

The live LPs were recorded in America. These (video) recordings were in Denmark and Norway, with different audience types.

[@jaybee7078]

I just *knew" that his time would come around again. B....r !!

[@geoffrennox1840]

Fantastic, I love this

[@brega6286]

I am dancing around all these many years later....ahahahha...Tom Leher is a musical prophet ! Some songs back then just were fun but today...oops....

[@arrowtongue]

Every one's gone to the "Tom Lehrer - We Will All Go Together When We Go - with intro" video

[@tubababe]

The monopoly reference is my favorite part OF the song. Though really, the whole thing is just win for me. Also, I miss the Maelstrom bit from "That Was the Year That Was." I just love his cheery little Cold War songs. So darkly chipper.

[@hfjjor3681]

Do you mean “down by the old maelstrom”?

[@HollyJahangiri]

I love this channel.

[@6funswede]

@uliczka, yes, I agree. I loved that bit about Valhalla too, because those lines were good and, also, I am a Norwegian. But Lehrer is in charge here.

[@worshipthehat]

love the fabulous rhyming put in place here! me and my mum know all the words to this and frequently sing along to her old LP of tom lehrer...good times ^-^

[@6funswede]

PracticalEmo, thanks for spreading the word. Nobody believed that the DVD release would happen but it did. This year you guys in America can buy this for Christmas gifts and spread the joy of Lehrer LIVE to your friends and family. Or...to your enemies?

[@6funswede]

Skukkuk, the man to thank here is Tom Lehrer himself. If it wasn't for him these videos wouldn't be here :-)

[@illdie314]

I remembered this song just now when writing about the global legacy of the manhattan project for ap us history.

[@EllunaHellen]

I am now officially SO, SO tempted to do it. Well either this or another end of the world song xD

[@toothfairy10133]

three billion is rookie numbers, we were at double that by the time i was born

[@Krakrest]

Ahh it lifts my mood!

[@FakenameStevens]

2:33 the way he looks over and slows down a little is the best part

[@syahmikadira6832]

Thanks NerdCubed for bringing here after watching the Hell video of Everybody's Gone to Rapture & is this song in a Fallout game?If it's not,well they should put it in the next game.

[@caroltubeyou]

Love the brilliant Tom Lehrer

[@6funswede]

pickledradishgirl, yes, absolutely true. Lehrer is still around and doing fine, enjoying a quiet life as a retired professor emeritus :-)