For Mikey
Update: Download the song (WMA file - if this doesn't work for you, please let me know and I'll try a different format) (right click and save it to your computer, please!)
I was listening to my Tom Lehrer CDs today and this song came on. I immediately thought of, well, Mikey...
Presenting "Smut" by Tom Lehrer:
Smut!
Give me smut and nothing but!
A dirty novel I can't shut,
If it's uncut,
And unsubt—t.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 importense."
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!
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!
Let's hear it for the Supreme Court!
Don't let them take it away!





hm... never heard of that singer, much less the song. perhaps i should go DL it or something?
He does really funny parodies and whatnot. You probably wouldn't like the style of the music, but if you IM me (tomorrow when I'm at work), I'll bring the CD home and rip the song for you.