April 9 - Tom Lehrer (The Musical Birthday Series)

Tom Lehrer (b. 9 April 1928) has long been beloved for a small corpus of brilliantly funny and darkly satirical songs.  The following nonsense verse in his honor have only the loosest connection to fact.

Doodoo that Voodoo

Tom Lehrer, if you believe the report,

Liked poisoning pigeons for sport.

A bird covered statue

Said “Here’s right back at you,”

And offered wholehearted support.

Laissez-fairing

While his humor no longer seem daring,

It used to keep stations from airing

His songs as he sang them;

But he didn’t harangue them,

His public facade was uncaring.