Lyrics: Various
Music: None
This is a passage from Robert Hunter's performance at the House of Blues on 28 April 2002.
[Hunter]
"I don't just know the songs you think I know. I know other songs. I know all the Tom Lehrer songs. You want Tom Lehrer?"
One man took the credit and one man took the blame"Or those things I learned in Sunday school:"
Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name
I'll never forget the time the great Lobachevsky
is teach me the secret of success
in mathematics, plagiarize
Let no one else's work evade your eyes
Plagiarize, , plagiarize, , plagiarize
Only be sure always to call it please "research".
[from "Lobachevsky" by Tom Lehrer]
The Lord made me, I'm happy as can be"I think the first thing I ever did on stage, fourth grade:"
My heart is full and running over
Running over, running over
I would be a sunbeam, shining for the King"And next year I got to do:"
Shining, shining, while His praises sing
I shot an arrow into the air"Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The same as gave you:"
It fell to earth I know not where
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight
For who has eyes so keen and strong
That they can follow the flight of song
Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke
And the song, from beginning to end
I found again in the heart of a friend
[from The Arrow And The Song]
By the shores of Gitche Gumee"And the same as gave you:"
By the shining Big-Sea-Water
Stood the wigwam of Nokomis
Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis
Hiawatha
[from The Song Of Hiawatha]
Listen my children and you shall hear"My word, don't get me started"
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year
He said to his friend, "If the British march
By land or sea from the town tonight
Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch
Of the old North Church, as a signal light
One if by land, and two if by sea
And I on the opposite shore will be
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm"
Then he said "Good night!" and with muffled oar
Silently rowed to the Charlestown shore
While the Somerset, British man-of-war
A phantom ship, each mast and spar
And a huge black hulk, that was magnified
By its own reflection in the tide
[ from Paul Revere's Ride]