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@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
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