Tom Lehrer - Wernher von Braun

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Tom Lehrer - Wernher von Braun

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Tom Lehrer on public domain (2020):
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Use the above link and get the uninterrupted Lehrer TV-performance and The Tom Lehrer Collection from Amazon.com.
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Want to hear Lehrer's INTRO? A HQ version was posted on the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11. Click this link:
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To make this song even more spot on, Lehrer used eight bars from the well-known German national anthem "Das Lied der Deutschen" as a song intro :-)
Check out more about the German national anthem here:
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Recording date: September 11th 1967
Format: Ampex Quadruplex PAL 4:3
Status: A very rare recording
Storage: Sony Digital Betacam
Von Braun on Wikipedia:
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Production and preservation: The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation - the NRK, Norway. More here:
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@adrianainespena5654 Жыл бұрын

"Wehrner, you missed school again." "Only by a couple of yards, mommy"

@job341kg 6 ай бұрын

Гениально. :))))

@mr.cauliflower3536 5 ай бұрын

A german would say meters

@adrianainespena5654 5 ай бұрын

@@mr.cauliflower3536 You are right.

@vidar188 5 ай бұрын

AYO 😂

@EssentialXIII 4 ай бұрын

...lmao

@usuallycallmark 11 жыл бұрын

"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down..." That's my motto when I play Kerbal Space Program.

@labg27 4 жыл бұрын

F yeah!!!!!

@Brewnoe 4 жыл бұрын

I'm here because of a lefty pitcher

@benbaselet2026 4 жыл бұрын

Well often the idea is they won't come down at all :)

@raysgr 3 жыл бұрын

The inventor of gun powder could imagine that his invention could cause harm as the energy expended obviously had enough force, but was he to extrapilate that into the many wars that it had a devastating effect in and not pass on his invention in the hope it might have a positive effect on mankind. Politicians and generals decide on the evil use of technology.

@touko_nanami 3 жыл бұрын

Omg real life is just like my BIDEO GAME

@dorkmax7073 4 жыл бұрын

Wehrner Von Braun's autobiography was titled "I Aim for the Stars". Satirist Mort Sahl suggested he subtitle it "Only Sometimes I Hit London".

@jonathankoan 2 ай бұрын

I know this joke from the West Wing. 😂

@user-kr1ks2dx4m 4 жыл бұрын

i aim at the moon but sometimes i hit london.

@elitex50 3 жыл бұрын

😭😭😂😂

@littlegamer00 Жыл бұрын

I aim at the moon but sometimes i hit Hiroshima

@slavinia21 Жыл бұрын

@@littlegamer00 dude wernher von braun did not contribute to the manhattan project (aka the creation of the nuke)

@littlegamer00 Жыл бұрын

@@slavinia21 Alright

@harman1957 11 ай бұрын

@@littlegamer00 I aim at Israel but sometimes I hit iraq

@TheEnderLeader1 4 жыл бұрын

"Nazi Schmazi" Fun fact, the idea of saying a word twice with schm the second time was introduced into the English language by Yiddish-speaking Jews.

@Milkythefawn 4 жыл бұрын

Irony at its finest

@Negentropy. 4 жыл бұрын

"internet Smeternet" Jeff Bezos c. 1998

@bahamastarry3054 4 жыл бұрын

no shit schlomo

@raysgr 4 жыл бұрын

Yiddish is a German dialect

@dylanchouinard6141 4 жыл бұрын

raysgr raysgr Yiddish is a hybridization of medieval high German and Hebrew, with dashes of Russian and other languages thrown in for good measure. It was developed by Ashkenazi Jews as a way to communicate with one another even if they lived in countries with totally different languages. Though you are correct in that it is a form of German, many modern German speakers can understand Yiddish quote well

@j.o.a.tgamingnz6467 4 жыл бұрын

That london pension line is savage af

@kl6544 3 жыл бұрын

I dont get it

@andreagiovannidemarchi9386 3 жыл бұрын

@@kl6544 Von Braun designed a rocket that was then used to bomb London, so the injured and widows of London "owe" their pensions to him

@kl6544 3 жыл бұрын

Wow thats brutal 😂

@riverofblood4362 3 жыл бұрын

Ikr?

@MushiePuppet17 3 жыл бұрын

My jaw literally dropped lol

@katkatkatkat463 3 жыл бұрын

Who else could pair such savage lyrics with such a delicate piano piece? No one.

@randomguy-hn2ny 2 жыл бұрын

Bo Burnham

@parodyceo7061 2 жыл бұрын

Tim Minchin ...was also going to mention Bo xD

@katsrin Жыл бұрын

In all seriousness, I believe Weird Al could. His lyrics can be as savage, and he does play keyboards.

@FSAPOJake Жыл бұрын

@@randomguy-hn2ny Bo Burnham owes basically everything to Tom. Tom did this stuff before basically anyone else.

@emperorhaya5351 Жыл бұрын

@@FSAPOJake Tom is basically a nuclear era Bo Burnham

@UnshavenStatue 12 жыл бұрын

"und I'm learning Chinese, says Werner von Braun!" Man, not only was he funny, but he has a remarkable ability to see into the future it would seem.

@riotpkz 3 жыл бұрын

I’ve listed to this song a few times before, but somehow only just noticed the end of the song, absolutely the Chinese part blew my mind too, although I didn’t feel it as much as when you posted 9 years ago.

@Merennulli 3 жыл бұрын

China became perceived as a threat in the US with the Communist revolution. The logic here was likely that the Russians already had rockets capable of threatening the US 10 years before this was recorded, but the Chinese were still working towards it at that point. Add to that, Qian Xuesen had interviewed Werner von Braun before being deported to China and then helping China with its program, so there was an actual connection already.

@lisamatthews890 3 жыл бұрын

Prophetic. Is he still alive? He may be a prophet.

@Merennulli 3 жыл бұрын

@@lisamatthews890 He's been retired for over 20 years, but he is still alive.

@lisamatthews890 3 жыл бұрын

@@Merennulli That’s almost amazing after all Werner Von Braun 1912-1977 died at 65. Now I wonder what Wernher Von Braun died of.

@peterpluim7912 3 жыл бұрын

I’ve never witnessed a public execution by song.

@karenina56 2 жыл бұрын

That's clever!

@shaider1982 4 жыл бұрын

On another note, Von Braun was still alive when this was recorded. I wonder if it reached him🤣

@shaider1982 4 жыл бұрын

@Ellie Frato-Sweeney hahaha🤣👍👍 well, I guess everyone's sense of humor has its limits.

@number3Ihatetoontown 4 жыл бұрын

I guess this song made him frown, although Tom said he wouldn't.

@davyoooo 4 жыл бұрын

@Ellie Frato-Sweeney Brilliant! Thanks.

@grahamtroy9381 4 жыл бұрын

Well, Lehrer deliberately (and probably righteousnessly) portrays him as cruel, disloyal, untalented, And unamerican. I don’t see how anyone would find that funny if someone did that to them. The rest of us can laugh.

@pdubbzloves6205 4 жыл бұрын

@@grahamtroy9381 aww poor Von Braun

@luger666666 8 жыл бұрын

"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down ? That's not my department says Wernher von Braun" haha nice one

@kerryoke68 7 жыл бұрын

my favorite line :)

@luger666666 7 жыл бұрын

By the way, I came here thanks to the BBC "Space Race" miniserie about Korolev/Von Braun. If you never watched it, you definately should.

@mckavitt 7 жыл бұрын

luger666666 Thanks for the tip.

@tschadschi1010 5 жыл бұрын

@sentinel scourge maybe because he was a war criminal who did not faced consequences for what he did?

@mariobarcelon3247 5 жыл бұрын

Tschadschi Yet he brought the US to the moon.

@insulini 2 жыл бұрын

When I studied aeronautics Von Braun was my idol and I listened to this song. My English was not good so I thought it was an hymn to his life and achievements. I learned the lyrics and sing it proudly everyday. Then I look for the meaning of the words widow and cripple and the truth hit me right in the nuts. I felt like a compete idiot. Nevermind, I still listen to it to have a casual laugh.

@MKAinMIA 2 жыл бұрын

He was your idol and you didn't know he was a Nazi??? How is that possible? You don't need to know English to know the very least of the basics of WWII.. Or take a look at the Nuremberg trials transcripts. He was there (if I recall correctly) and testified to his role, of course it's largely him doing his best to minimize his involvement or even KNOWLEDGE of what was going on! And of course after all, he was "just following orders."

@TheNavalAviator 2 жыл бұрын

@@MKAinMIA It was probably before the Internet.

@MKAinMIA 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheNavalAviator oh yeah. that's a very good suggestion... one that, i'm embarrassed to admit, didn't even occur to me

@ajdowney 2 жыл бұрын

My Dad was `Manager: Materials & Fabrication Development' on von Braun's Pegasus Project (1962-65). Growing up, my Mom could infrequently be heard telling family friends that my Dad "refused to shake von Braun's hand." I never heard my Dad say it, it was always Mom.

@edisontrent618 2 жыл бұрын

@@ajdowney Typical women moment, really.

@USMCJew 15 жыл бұрын

TOM LEHRER lives!!!! If you decide to attend the University of California, Santa Cruz, you can hear him LIVE, and IN CONCERT!!!!! Although an emeritus faculty member there, he is now in his early 80s, he still wanders over and gives free recitals with previously unheard material, like he rips the Governator, Arnold Schwartzenegger, and on the serious side, guest lectures once in awhile too.

@GasPipeJimmy Жыл бұрын

Man! Tom Lehrer is still alive in 2023! He’s 95 now, probably not still wandering UC Santa Cruz, but he’s still with us.

@cthulhudreams 11 ай бұрын

@@GasPipeJimmy thats amazing!

@ccmarcum 11 ай бұрын

let's hope he sees this and knows he is still appreciated. @@cthulhudreams

@triksters24 2 ай бұрын

@@GasPipeJimmy But not the Von Braun

@jenaauerstedt7650 5 жыл бұрын

Mort Sahl is also credited, perhaps erroneously, with the line that von Braun wrote an autobiography entitled, "I Aim at the Stars" -- to which Sahl added, "but sometimes I hit London."

@RandyMoe 4 жыл бұрын

I saw Mort perform in Old Town, maybe 20 years ago, I was the youngest by far in the crowd. I admired Mort in the 60's and still do.

@andmicbro1 2 жыл бұрын

NASA kept having issues with their rockets going off coarse. But they solved the problem, all they had to do was calibrate their rockets in relation to their distance from London and that fixed it!

@EvanSiegel54 2 жыл бұрын

There is some truth to this. Eisenhower famously distrusted the Germans and would not employ von Braun in the US missile program. The result: the test missiles all crashed and burned. von Braun was able to shoot straight. So the Yanks swallowed hard and put him on the job. He was a committed Nazi, but he sure knew how to fire a working missile.

@MKAinMIA 2 жыл бұрын

@@EvanSiegel54 yup! And, really, that's what's most important. So he was involved in a little mixup that got a few .. uh.. million.. Jews rounded up and murdered but we have important business to attend to here! And I mean, come on, are we really going to sacrifice our bottom line for Jews?? Don't be a putz! Or a schmuck. Or the nearly endless Yiddish words for penis! Lol it's a fun tongue

@JONNOG88 15 жыл бұрын

There's no denying that Werner Von Braun was a genius. And was way ahead of his time. But the words Mercenary and self-Interest spring to mind

@solaraspect5255 2 жыл бұрын

Let me call Archimedes or Leonardo Da Vinci for 500 and ask if they agree with your assement. When other people do a racism and a funny against one another, they at least have the guts to say it out loud... that's how it stays funny, over the top and can be easily satirized by both sides in a spirit of light banter. Lehrer's people prefer the cloak of false objectivity, which leads to animosity and hatred.

@MKAinMIA 2 жыл бұрын

@@solaraspect5255 lol wow.

@allthenewsordeath5772 Жыл бұрын

@@solaraspect5255 Let me see if I got this right, your joke was that when you said Lehrers people you meant lefties, but the reader is supposed to interpret it as you meaning Jewish people, hence the joke being in the misunderstanding of the joke which reflects onto the interpreter rather than the shyster in question correct?

@weareallbornmad410 Жыл бұрын

@@solaraspect5255 Sorry, what racism did Lehrer do in this song? I'm assuming that's what you are implying? If not then which "racism" paired together with "funny" are we refering to, here?

@YOSSARIAN313 11 ай бұрын

@@solaraspect5255archimedes was fighting a defensive war not a war of conquest and extermination and da vinci was not creating weapons of mass murder. They arent comparable. His crimes were on par with those on trial at nuremburg he should have hanged. He never accepted accountability for his actions and died making excuses and lying. He was an unrepentant nazi to his core.

@Doctor_Jürgen_Voller 7 ай бұрын

Tom Lehrer is 95 now and is still alive. Amazing!

@JZsBFF 3 ай бұрын

He may outlive us all. Comedy is eternal life!

@Doctor_Jürgen_Voller 3 ай бұрын

@@JZsBFFUPDATE: He is 96 years old now and still alive!

@stdollarssc8013 2 жыл бұрын

As a German history student I can say, this is a masterpiece! 😉

@BigShaneGillis Жыл бұрын

Remain amongst the official narrative you will. Revealing reality you shan’t. Pray for thee I must.

@dizzylilthing Жыл бұрын

@@BigShaneGillis Okay Holocaust denier, go to Israel and spread your truth in Jerusalem

@johnpaulvalentin5819 Жыл бұрын

@@BigShaneGillisYoda? Is that you?

@eamari87 Жыл бұрын

History is also my department… 📚 > 🚀

@henryseidel5469 Жыл бұрын

@@BigShaneGillis You should better pray for historical truth ! It is not a 'narrative' but a picture of real history. Pray for yourself you should !

@Crocunt 10 ай бұрын

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.

@culfycavy 15 жыл бұрын

"This song is in no way critical of vo Braun or his work, it's just funny :)" You have listened to it haven't you?

@0x777 4 жыл бұрын

I'd guess it's also a bit of a side blow to the US government that quietly turns a blind eye to people with "questionable" past if it can benefit from it.

@anonymousmobster2444 3 жыл бұрын

@@0x777 To be fair Von Braun wasn't exactly a nazi by choice. Most of the horrors of nazi germany were hidden from his view, like with most germans in general.

@0x777 3 жыл бұрын

@@anonymousmobster2444 Erh... no. Von Braun knew who built his V2.

@thceppur6755 3 жыл бұрын

@@anonymousmobster2444 "Hmmm, I wonder were all the jews have gone... eh they're probably just all on holiday, nothing to worry about here." ~ Wernher von Braun 1944 (probably)

@anonymousmobster2444 3 жыл бұрын

@@thceppur6755 Last I checked, Von Braun didn't keep tabs on every single jew in Germany.

@danielgertler5976 2 ай бұрын

For All Man Kind sent me here. I was actually kind of surprised to find it was a real song and wasn't made for the show but I'm glad someone back then was willing to speak out against operation paperclip

@Hewpie 11 жыл бұрын

We owe credit to Von Braun for the character of poorly repressed Nazi, Dr Strangelove.

@dkroll92 2 жыл бұрын

Dr Strangelove is based primarily on Herman Kahn from the RAND Corporation, with some Edward Teller thrown in there (ironically, considering he was Jewish and on the allied side during the war)

@kathyharkness3394 2 жыл бұрын

@@dkroll92 Exactly right -- I used to work at the Hudson Institute (which Kahn founded after he left RAND) and even though Kahn had been dead for several years by then, the organization was still very proud of that connection and mentioned it in publicity and fundraising. The term "think tank" was actually coined in direct reference to Hudson, and we had a stack of mimeo copies of a Vietnam War era poster depicting an outsized Kahn perched on a toy-like M48 with the caption "Herman Kahn and His Little 'Think' Tank -- the Hudson Institute.'

@Doctor_Jürgen_Voller 7 ай бұрын

And he also inspired Jürgen Voller from Indiana Jones 5: the Dial of Destiny who was also a Nazi and NASA scientist from Operation Paperclip.

@jeromemckenna7102 10 жыл бұрын

I'd forgotten the sentence about Chinese, how prescient.

@FourthDerivative 4 жыл бұрын

The aptly named Tom Lehrer: "Lehrer" being the German for "teacher", and "Thomas" being the Biblical Greek for "doubtful".

@janettewong9900 4 жыл бұрын

He was a math professor at my college, UC Santa Cruz!

@ZeranZeran 3 жыл бұрын

I think you put more thought into his name than he did

@FourthDerivative 3 жыл бұрын

@@ZeranZeran Probably

@Delosian 3 жыл бұрын

Except it's not. Thomas means 'twin' in Hebrew.

@FourthDerivative 3 жыл бұрын

@@Delosian Oh, I know. It was just supposed to be a silly joke on "doubting Thomas"

@thebusinessgoose8939 4 жыл бұрын

"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they fall down?" Best analogy for the educational system

@LumineVonReuental 12 жыл бұрын

I'm still amazed at how most of his lyrics are still applicable to our context...

@zb3495 3 жыл бұрын

The last line was ahead of its time

@QueenetBowie 3 жыл бұрын

Funny it struck me that way too. Amazing

@josesegura7001 3 жыл бұрын

I didnt get it, could you explain what it means?

@HerrMahnMahRez 3 жыл бұрын

@@josesegura7001 the Chinese are predicted to be one of the newest superpower of the world by 2030 and we will all be speaking mandarin.

@simonm1447 3 жыл бұрын

@@HerrMahnMahRez ironically the main stage of a Chinese CZ-5B rocket is now coming down the next days, uncontrolled and at an yet unknown place, the last one was found in Africa a year ago

@miladantoine4566 2 жыл бұрын

@@HerrMahnMahRez yeah don't worry china won't become a superpower like America. Everything china produce is just a stolen cheap version of American and Western inventions. They can't make anything genuine of their own.

@Quasimodo1957 8 жыл бұрын

Excellent satirical piece. Classic.

@theresemeyn 15 жыл бұрын

This is the greatest musical satirist, ever. You Americans should be proud of him. Lehrer was amazing.

@jodishapiro9257 Жыл бұрын

Is… he’s still alive 14 years after you commented

@weatherschultz8281 4 жыл бұрын

I woke up with this song in my head.....thanks For All Mankind !

@dalethelander3781 3 жыл бұрын

Boy, that series fucked with flight rotations. And Thomas Paine as NASA administrator for, like, 15 years? Geeze.

@jimmy2k4o 2 жыл бұрын

@@dalethelander3781 only during republican administrations Nixon and Reagan he’s wasn’t administrator during Kennedy

@dalethelander3781 2 жыл бұрын

@@jimmy2k4o Right. James Webb was administrator under Kennedy and Johnson IRL. But on For All Mankind, Von Braun was the second NASA administrator and Paine was administrator for years until he died on September 1, 1983 when KAL Airlines flight 007 was shot down by a Russian fighter. Paine was kept on by President Theodore Kennedy after Nixon's resignation. Are you unfamiliar with the tv series For All Mankind?

@jimmy2k4o 2 жыл бұрын

@@dalethelander3781 I mean in the show when Kennedy is president nasa is run by a different guy. Harold weisner. Then Reagan becomes president and Thomas Paine comes back then dies. Maybe YOU need to watch it again.

@dalethelander3781 2 жыл бұрын

@@jimmy2k4o Right. NASA is being run by Von Braun under Kennedy.

@charlesmcdowell9436 10 жыл бұрын

This was genius, so far ahead of it's time!

@begobogo2583 4 жыл бұрын

Especially the I'm learning Chinese line, that went way over the heads of the audience

@hand__banana 3 жыл бұрын

@@begobogo2583 my friend doesn't get it, can someone please explain it to my friend? Is it the fact that China was an emerging communist nuclear power and the joke is he was ready to hop countries? If so, why do you say it went over their heads?

@sce2aux464 8 жыл бұрын

I wonder if they ever met.

@number3Ihatetoontown 4 жыл бұрын

I read Tom got beat up.

@matthew5386 4 жыл бұрын

@@number3Ihatetoontown more context is important

@number3Ihatetoontown 4 жыл бұрын

@@matthew5386 Call him a Nazi he won't even frown. "Nazi, schmazi." "Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department." "In German or English I know how to count down, and I'm learning Chinese."

@matthew5386 4 жыл бұрын

@@number3Ihatetoontown thank you it's also und I'm learning chinease

@number3Ihatetoontown 4 жыл бұрын

If you go to my website, WWW.BERNIESANDERS.COMMUNIST you will see some very strange things.

@Justanotherpokespepfp 6 ай бұрын

Tom Lehrer is truly a genius, his gallows humour as well as taking the piss out of injustice.

@Xethron91 2 ай бұрын

I love the venom in his voice as he says "apolitical". Even 60 years ago this was a transparent excuse yet people still fall for it today.

@malbecks316 5 жыл бұрын

Holy shit. I wish burns could work their way backwards through time.

@klobiforpresident2254 4 жыл бұрын

Braun has, in fact, heard this song.

@lisamatthews890 3 жыл бұрын

I am certain he was amused, after-all he was a proud 33 degree mason.

@largelysubatomic 11 жыл бұрын

Some have harsh words for this man of renown, But some think our attidude should be one of gratitude, Like the widows and cripples of old London town, Who owe their large pensions to Werner Von Braun. LOL that's the most twisted line in there, but it doesn't get much of a laugh. von Braun's V-2 rockets caused about the same number of deaths and injuries in London as 9/11 did in NYC.

@polygondwanaland8390 4 жыл бұрын

We'd probably think better of Bin Laden if he gave up terrorism and ended up leading NASA's rocket design program

@leonfa259 3 жыл бұрын

I caused even more deaths than both together in Germany.

@thenablade858 3 жыл бұрын

@@leonfa259 You mean Dresden? Numbers put Dresden deaths at 25,000-35,000 and London bombing deaths (altogether) at around 43,000 with more than 100,000 injured.

@leonfa259 3 жыл бұрын

@@thenablade858 I mean that the V2 production costed 20k lives in Germany, which is more than double the 9k it killed in England.

@dianarestifo8624 2 жыл бұрын

Every song is a gem - three minutes of brilliant music, satire, unrivaled lyrics and rhyming. Not to mention pitch-perfect performance. Lehrer's music holds up astoundingly well over the decades, especially considering the topical nature of much of it.

@6020e3 12 жыл бұрын

this man is fantastic, shame not too many people know about him

@ernesthill4017 2 жыл бұрын

He'd never make it in today's entertainment industry

@cm1701a 4 жыл бұрын

Who else is here in 2020 after watching Ep2 of "For all Mankind"?

@npa5838 4 жыл бұрын

I thought "wow that's badass if the video is synthetic". But turned out Tom really wrote this. Crazy schmazy

@stefanventure2712 3 жыл бұрын

I was super annoyed when they tried to kill him

@krystalgarcia-hearn352 3 жыл бұрын

Episode 8 of “Hunters“

@aliashraf7617 3 жыл бұрын

@@krystalgarcia-hearn352 What's that?

@H1storyRemembers 3 жыл бұрын

Changing the course of history but showing stuff from our history. Even though he was exposed both in our history & FAM history.

@Charliecomet82 4 жыл бұрын

Greatest smart-asses in American History: Mark Twain, H. L. Mencken, and Tom Lehrer.

@kodyeldridge5847 3 жыл бұрын

and woody guthrie.

@mabas5 15 жыл бұрын

I'm 15 years boy from Lithuania ( europe center, near baltic sea..) and i just love Tom's songs i'm lisining it's every day ;P THANK YOU Tom Lehrer!!!!!!!!

@user-li8wj3lt2l 4 ай бұрын

now you are 30, congratulations

@Rollin558 16 жыл бұрын

Wow, it's been since the sixties when I heard Lehrer's songs. I remember them well, especially this one. I remember the ending especially. Thanks for the post. Happy 80th Birthday to you, Mr. Lehrer.

@number3Ihatetoontown 4 жыл бұрын

I had to look at the upload date when I read this comment! He's past 90 now.

@jiajiajiaism 3 жыл бұрын

In April of this year he turned 93. Last October he released all his music into public domain. What a great guy.

@MOONSIP2 3 жыл бұрын

Happy Birthday, Tom Lehrer (April 9, 1928) Thank you for sharing your gifts with us.

@d1v1nu5 3 жыл бұрын

Lyrics ... 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" say 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 pension to Wernher von Braun You too may be a big hero Once you've learned to count backwards to zero "In German, oder Englisch, I know how to count down Und I'm learning Chinese!" says Wernher von Braun

@Khawalidmi 3 жыл бұрын

", and I am learning Chinese says Wernher von Braun" What a great insight from Tom Lehrer.

@contactkeithstack 9 жыл бұрын

My dad used to play me Tom Lehrer albums, still love this guys music.

@leemumbray-williams2440 5 жыл бұрын

How I love watching the great Tom Lehrer playing the piano!

@post_obamacore 11 ай бұрын

And in 2023 the Canadian Parliament is giving standing ovations to veterans of the 14th Waffen SS. Tom's still alive so I can only imagine what he thinks of this shit

@Agapy8888 10 ай бұрын

What a disaster. Trudeau needs to resign.

@williet.3058 5 ай бұрын

No one seems to notice the pro n.zi tendencies in dear Ukraine..

@stephencarter5720 3 ай бұрын

That was entirely accidental. Incompetent, but not badly intentioned.

@guyd7924 3 ай бұрын

@@stephencarter5720 It is all the same, however what is more hillarious that Zelenskiy said nothing at that point, I guess he values western money more than memory of his people who died in camps.

@kathytanner2872 9 ай бұрын

I had Tomfoolery brilliantly translated into German and performed it in Vienna. They loved it and I was happy to introduce his incredible talent and sharp observation here.

@AlexanderRM1000 5 жыл бұрын

Wow, I first head this song maybe a decade or less ago (in a discussion of the XKCD comic about him- "Space Launch System") and didn't realize that it was written in 1965, while he was not only still alive but working with NASA. That's a lot bolder of a burn than I realized!

@klobiforpresident2254 4 жыл бұрын

Not only that but von Braun actually was played this song at least once.

@davyoooo 4 жыл бұрын

yeah could you imagine him today? He'd be fried by whichever side he offended.... oh, ok, the left.

@piotrd.4850 4 жыл бұрын

Von Braun and his team, for death of few thousand of force labourers in his programme, should be burned. Quite literally.

@TripleAlfafa 4 жыл бұрын

@@piotrd.4850 t. bitter soviet engineer still salty over getting beaten to the moon

@user-yo5ee5kx4y 4 жыл бұрын

@@TripleAlfafa wow, really? You do know Von Braun was a nazi?

@andrewemerson347 9 жыл бұрын

lol I love the laughs in the background. lol They know its wrong to laugh at some jokes but still do.

@cazbert6 3 жыл бұрын

its never wrong to laugh at nazis

@podomuss 2 жыл бұрын

@@cazbert6 True

@6funswede 15 жыл бұрын

Thank you. There are twelve super RARE Tom Lehrer songs on this channel, from a recording no-one thought existed.

@verminjerky 4 жыл бұрын

Welp, that's it for me, I have a new crush. Also, just delighted to learn that Tom is still with us.

@playasadonejoe Жыл бұрын

Still kicking it in 2023!

@6funswede 15 жыл бұрын

jimjimjimjim1234, thank you. No-one in the whole world thought that a whole Lehrer performance on video had survived. But it did, and thanks to Tom Lehrer it's here. Spread the word :-)

@arthurharrison1345 7 жыл бұрын

Tom Lehrer will be 89 in April. A lyrical genius.

@lisamatthews890 3 жыл бұрын

Now if still alive he’s 93, as you wrote that comment four years ago.

@MKAinMIA 2 жыл бұрын

@@lisamatthews890 is he??

@eozcompany9856 2 жыл бұрын

@@MKAinMIA he is

@kugelblitz-zx9un Жыл бұрын

He's 94 as of now

@godfreypigott 6 ай бұрын

@@kugelblitz-zx9un And now 95, almost 96.

@haupper 16 жыл бұрын

"Zat's not my depahtment!" Man, they do not make humor like this anymore.

@steverogers5956 Ай бұрын

"A man whose alligience was ruled by expedience" is timeless, and still appropriate in many cases.

@tomaxx1296 3 жыл бұрын

skip to 00:16 for the song

@iammrmat 12 жыл бұрын

You don't have to be a rocket scientist to appreciate this song...

@miniciominiciominicio 16 жыл бұрын

This guy is simply amazing. He's a natural performer. It's really too bad he just didn't find it entertaining anymore and quit.

@suttonelms1 3 жыл бұрын

Genius. Fantastic wordsmith and amazing musician.

@Moinsdeuxcat 9 жыл бұрын

This'll turn 50 in two years, and I'm only 17. Those are things that get me sad. Born somewhat earlier, I would have been able to see him.

@waltrz 9 жыл бұрын

Well you could hang around the University of California there a small chance of seeing him just around there apparently.

@arthas640 8 жыл бұрын

+Béranger Seguin He's still alive, he just mostly stopped performing publicly in the early 70's

@tessahallett4133 8 жыл бұрын

+Béranger Seguin I was 5 in 1960 and already had a love for this cat. I would have loved to see him live.

@arthas640 8 жыл бұрын

Tessa Hallett I didn't know he was was a cat, he plays pretty well with paws :D

@tessahallett4133 8 жыл бұрын

Arthas Menethil Sorry...raised by true Beat people..lol

@ptkwilliams 3 ай бұрын

This is the most brutal diss track in the history of music

@charlescassells4562 4 ай бұрын

Wonderful and very touching, a man I admire.

@slayermate07 3 жыл бұрын

here from For All Mankind.

@aliashraf7617 3 жыл бұрын

I knew there would be some people here who discovered this song from that

@tylertone2776 3 жыл бұрын

THIS GUY IS STILL ALIVE

@lisamatthews890 3 жыл бұрын

Long may he play and sing!

@toxikyle5419 5 ай бұрын

To clarify, Tom Lehrer is still alive, *not* Wernher von Braun

@Ulrich4800 11 жыл бұрын

I heard this song in a NASA documentary back in elementary school. It suddendly popped into my head today, and in less than a minute I found this video. God I love KZfaq.

@jsuma2873 4 жыл бұрын

America: Hey von Braun, wanna build rockets for the United States? Von Braun: Nein America: We won’t send you to be executed at the Nuremberg trials. Von Braun: Ok

@TripleAlfafa 4 жыл бұрын

If the US was worried about something, it would have been him going to the Soviets.

@0x777 4 жыл бұрын

Actually, what they originally had in mind for him is to put him on ice so he can't build those rockets for the Russians. Only when they noticed that their own rockets are more suited for a game of KSP they gave von Braun the go.

@Kemuri7784 4 жыл бұрын

Nice way to think. Trust lies is very easy and accepted.

@ew-uy6cs 4 жыл бұрын

Without him the Americans would have Been second to the moon

@raysgr 4 жыл бұрын

Are you suggesting that somehow the US is morally superior in this deal?

@OZ88 8 жыл бұрын

.....clips and papers says Wernher Von Braun ....

@6funswede 15 жыл бұрын

Yes, I do. To quote Tom Lehrer: "to hire von Braun was one thing, OK, but to make him a hero...." If you visit the front page of this channel (user = 6funswede) and THEN the supporting web site, check out the links. You'll hear Lehrer talking on radio and you can read all the interviews :-) This man is both funny and politically incorrect, and he deserves attention.

@Qosize 4 жыл бұрын

That man was a stable genius...

@anonleft Жыл бұрын

The text addition at the beginning is woeful

@onionbroisbestwaifu5067 3 жыл бұрын

“Once the rockets go up, who cares where they come down.” Well of course he does! He is on first base.

@mikeryan2388 2 жыл бұрын

He is on first? Who is he? Yes. He is who? Exactly. So He is on first base? No, Who is on first! That's what I said!

@Glassy967 5 жыл бұрын

"Nazi Schmazi" just utter genius 🤣

@ug-ei6xw 4 жыл бұрын

Jewey, dewey, ha ha.

@gregoryjclark81 Жыл бұрын

I never tire of this little ditty. So good.

@Alexandertygreat Жыл бұрын

This is nothing short of brilliance. 😊

@harrisonhan5610 4 жыл бұрын

Who’s here from For All Mankind?

@aryanraj1667 4 жыл бұрын

boasome1 SSS RADIO It’s a show on Apple TV + about what if the Soviets landed on the moon first

@aryanraj1667 4 жыл бұрын

boasome1 SSS RADIO Oh shit I read the question wrong, my bad. Yeah it was in the show on episode 2 I think.

@etron1967 4 жыл бұрын

Confirmed, episode 2 of this show. I am impressed that there was any negative feelings against the „ex“ Nazi „Herr Wernher von Braun“ at all... 😆

@ateleskier7066 3 жыл бұрын

"Are you a Nazi?" "Yes" "Were you part of the leadership that sent millions of innocent men, women and children to their deaths?" "Yes" "Do you know anything about rockets?" "Yes" "Well that's alright then; welcome to America!"

@sce2aux464 3 жыл бұрын

Yes. It would have been so much better for us to shoot them all. Granted, it would have been a tremendous boost for the Soviet Union, who didn't have such self-righteous standards and could very well have lead to Soviet military dominance over Europe...but hey, at least we could have claimed the moral fucking high ground.

@ateleskier7066 3 жыл бұрын

@@sce2aux464 Self-righteous? You're not Jewish then I will presume.

@h.gonyaulax2190 3 жыл бұрын

But the US made him an American Hero - nevertheless he brought them to the moon.

@JonPITBZN 2 жыл бұрын

Ex-Nazis with a skillset were Germany's top export in 1945. The US and USSR were frantically importing these guys before the ground had cooled from the bombs and the ink was dry on the surrender. People often talk about how the government treats the wealthy different--morality and ideology take a backseat to money. But money isn't the only reason the government plays favorites. Are you evil? I sleep. Are you *useful* ? Real shit.

@Jonathanatus 3 жыл бұрын

Great song, greatings from Germany

@andrewwhitbread9362 4 ай бұрын

"The White & Black Keys of History Don't NEED to Be SQUASHED When in a BOOK thanks to Tom Lehrer." - St. Tom Lehrer Fan."

@sgt.slaughter2284 2 жыл бұрын

I only heard of this song cause of "For All Of Mankind" You?

@Janeandhound 11 жыл бұрын

freaking amazing! oh my God I thank you so much for posting Lehrer! I think my dad kept this one from me (I used to memorize and sing all the songs from other stuff dad had and played of his). would have gotten my ass kicked but good for this one! ; ) !!

@germanpianist 11 ай бұрын

"... where they come down... ? It `s not my departement, says wernher von braun ..." Großartig und demonitarisiert, logo 🙂!

@ambzcloud 8 ай бұрын

"That's not my department," is one of the funniest things ever to me. I never get tired of this somg. 😂

@HighlanderXTV 9 жыл бұрын

you either get it, or you don't!

@pucie_boi 8 жыл бұрын

There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't

@codehorse8843 7 жыл бұрын

Ryan Hallberg I lol'd

@Katesac 7 жыл бұрын

So true...:)

@ameldancalippo6912 7 жыл бұрын

Without Von Braun the Americans would not have got to the moon.

@BuzzSuite 5 жыл бұрын

news flash: with Wernher Von Braun the Americans didn't go to the moon either

@caav56 5 жыл бұрын

@@BuzzSuite News flash: the Moon Hoax theories were debunked a long time ago.

@BuzzSuite 5 жыл бұрын

@@caav56 really? where? on Wikipedia?

@6funswede 16 жыл бұрын

bosunbilly, thank you for your comment. And it really makes me wonder how many "paperclip guys" you Americans imported into the US...

@monoceros1222 12 жыл бұрын

Indeed. While it may be too late for Mr. Von Braun, Tom Lehrer's reference to "learning Chinese" back in about 1960 here is extremely prescient!!

@6funswede 14 жыл бұрын

@pgg804a, I'm no sure about other Jewish songwriters. In 2003 Lehrer told The Sydney Morning Herald that he -- quote -- "couldn't do anything with the Israelis and the Palestinians "because I'm against everybody and I can't take a side". Born in 1928 in Manhattan, Lehrer grew up in a family that was Jewish but had "more to do with the delicatessen then the synagogue," he told Rhino Records. In his home, according to Lehrer, "God was primarily an expletive."

@joannabadami1091 4 жыл бұрын

Love the stuff -- more clever and important than any other commentary on Today's scary politics. Thanks to the NPR special for the introduction!

@wharfmouse 5 жыл бұрын

So funny. Was used in the 6 hr PBS moon series just last week

@6funswede 16 жыл бұрын

Thanx, all of you, for your nice comments. Normally, I would NOT post other peoples work on KZfaq, but I got frustrated because there was so little of Tom Lehrer available. If you click on the username 6funswede you'll see that this is "the Tom Lehrer wisdom channel", a TRIBUTE to Mr. Lehrer, who is one of the most outstanding (musical) satirists that the world has ever seen. Yes, he IS a brilliant man :-)

@loganmcleod3389 3 жыл бұрын

Tom Lehrer's work is public domain, so it's all fine.

@user-en8wc1lo6c Жыл бұрын

Wernher von Braun diss track

@F5ss 9 ай бұрын

I LOVE how the intro sounds like the german international anthem

@Crestnutt 17 жыл бұрын

This is my favorite song. Tom Lehrer is the best!

@Savior-ot6ur 4 жыл бұрын

Who is here because of hunters?

@sasquatchredbeard9385 4 жыл бұрын

I knew who it was by voice immediately but had never heard this song. Just: New Math, I got it from Agnes, and the elements song.

@pdubbzloves6205 4 жыл бұрын

Yes

@londonlaguna 4 жыл бұрын

What is hunters?

@pdubbzloves6205 4 жыл бұрын

@@londonlaguna a show about Jews hunting Nazis it's got Al Pacino in it. It's on Amazon prime.

@hannahwilliams4587 4 жыл бұрын

I knew it was him just by hearing his voice!!! Didn't know the song though although I've got loads of Tom Lehrer on my Spotify playlist but hadn't heard this. When I said "It's Tom Lehrer!!" my other half looked at me and said "who?".... Shame on him!!!! Lol!