Christine,
Morrie's is at Yale, or so I have been told.
When I first met Tom Lehrer in the fall of 1961, he was a 9G (9th year
grad student) in math at Harvard, and I was then a 1G. He put on some
great parties. I have no idea what he is doing now.
He had a great model of a hand:
I hold your hand in mine dear, I touch it to my lips,
I take a healthy bite from your dainty fingertips.
My joy would be complete dear, if you were only here.
But still I keep your hand as a dainty souvenir.
The night you died I cut it off, I really don't know why.
For now each time I kiss it, I get bloodstains on my tie.
I'm sorry now I killed you, our love was something fine.
Until they come to get me, I will hold your hand in mine.
I know that it is a sick song, but I remember it well.
And I remember his versions of Clementine. So I guess I date myself.
Steve.
Christine Gray wrote:
Coincidentally, below was just posted on the Anglo-Saxon listserv.
Christine
-Original Message-
From: ANSAXNET Discussion Forum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of James M. Pfundstein
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 12:04 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ANSAX-L] wyrd and weird
On Mar 22, 2007, at 11:38 PM, Terrill Heaps wrote:
These are all the ones of which the news has come to Hahhvard,
and there may be many others, but they haven't been discohhvered.
(And if you recognize the above, you are dating yourself. :)
Terrill Heaps (off to go poison pigeons, in the park)
Dating oneself: not too much fun. Think of all those one-sided
conversations!
One of Tom Lehrer's early songs was Clementine, redone by Mozart, a
dreadfully hip beatnik, and Gilbert and Sullivan. I wonder what it
would sound/read if the _Beowulf_-poet had done a stanza?
JM(Morrie's--wherever that may be)P
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