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Stewart -
The song is titled "The Wild West Is Where I Want to Be", and it appeared
on "Tom Lehrer Revisted" (Reprise Records R/RS 6216, 1966) The intro to the
song is as follows ...
"Now if I may indulge in a bit of personal history, a few years ago I
worked for a while at the Los Alamos scientific laboratory in New Mexico. I had
a job there as a spy. No, I guess you know that the staff out there at
that time was composed almost exclusively of spies...of one persuasion or
another. And, while I was out there, I came to realize how much the Wild
West had changed since the good old days of Wyatt Earp and "Home on the Range",
and here then is a modern cowboy ballad commemorating that delightful
metamorphosis called "The Wild West Is Where I Wanna Be".
Jim Hardeman
Jim_Hardeman@dnr.state.ga.us
>>> Stewart Farber <farbersa@optonline.net> 9/14/2002 3:30:15 >>> Hi all: Lyrics to Tom Lehrer's late 1950 song referenced by Ruth. If memory serves me right, it was on one of his albums titled "An Evening wasted With Tom Lehrer". I'll have to check. Sung to the tune of "Oh, the Wild West is where I wanna be: Stewart Farber ===================== Along the trail you'll find me lopin' Where the spaces are wide open, In the land of the old A.E.C.* Yee-hoo! Where the scenery's attractive, And the air is radioactive, Oh, the Wild West is where I wanna be. 'Mid the sagebrush and the cactus I'll watch the fellows practice Droppin' bombs through the clean desert breeze. A-ha! I'll have on my sombrero, And of course I'll wear a pair o' Levis over my lead B.V.D.'s. I will leave the city's rush, Leave the fancy and the plush, Leave the snow and leave the slush And the crowds. I will seek the desert's hush, Where the scenery is lush, How I long to see the mush-room clouds. 'Mid the yuccas and the thistles I'll watch the guided missiles, While the old F.B.I. watches me. Yee-hoo! Yes, I'll soon make my appearance (Soon as I can get my clearance), 'Cause the Wild West is where I wanna be. ======================== 9/14/02 8:44:17 AM, RuthWeiner@AOL.COM wrote: > Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 11:44:17 -0400 (EDT) > From: RuthWeiner@AOL.COM > Subject:Re: hot new jeans > The Times (London), Fri, Sept 13, 2002: The American jeans company Levi > Strauss yesterday denied that its new trousers fitted with "anti-radiation" > pockets for mobile phones played on consumer fears. > Does anyone out there remember the Tom Lehrer song "In the Land of the Old > AEC"? It has a line in it about "lead BVDs." > > Ruth > > Ruth Weiner, Ph. D. > ruthweiner@aol.com ************************************************************************ You are currently subscribed to the Radsafe mailing list. To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to Majordomo@list.vanderbilt.edu Put the text "unsubscribe radsafe" (no quote marks) in the body of the e-mail, with no subject line. You can view the Radsafe archives at http://www.vanderbilt.edu/radsafe/ |