Tom Lehrer - So Long Mom LYRICS

This year weve been celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the civil war and the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of world war I and the twentieth anniversary of the end of world war ii

L in all its been a good year for the war buffs and a number of lps and television specials have come out capitalizing on all this "nostalgia" with particular emphasis on the songs of

Various wars. I feel that if any songs are going to come out of world war iii wed better start writing them now. I have one here. you might call it a bit of pre-nostalgia. this is the song that

Of the boys sang as they went bravely of to world war iii.



So long, mom,

Im off to drop the bomb,

So dont wait up for me.

But while you swelter

Down there in your shelter,

You can see me

On your tv.



While were attacking frontally,

Watch brinkally and huntally,

Describing contrapuntally

The cities we have lost.

No need for you to miss a minute

Of the agonizing holocaust. (yeah!)



Little johnny jones he was a u.s. pilot,

And no shrinking vilet was he.

He was mighty proud when world war three was declared,

He wasnt scared,

No siree!



And this is what he said on

His way to armageddon:



So long, mom,

Im off to drop the bomb,

So dont wait up for me.

But though I may roam,

Ill come back to my home,

Although it may be

A pile of debris.



Remember, mommy,

Im off to get a commie,

So send me a salami,

And try to smile somehow.

Ill look for you when the war is over,

An hour and a half from now!