My Home Town


Next we have the dear-hearts-and-gentle-people's school of songwriting, in which the singer tells you that, no matter how much sin and vice and crime go on where he comes from, it's still the be
Ace in the world because it's home, you know. sort of gets you. this example is called my home town.

I really have a yen
To go back once again,
Back to the place where no one wears a frown,
To see once more those super-special just plain folks
In my home town.

No fellow could ignore
The little girl next door,
She sure looked sweet in her first evening gown.
Now there's a charge for what she used to give for free
In my home town.

I remember dan, the druggist on the corner, 'e
Was never mean or ornery,
He was swell.
He killed his mother-in-law and ground her up real well,
And sprinkled just a bit
Over each banana split.

The guy that taught us math,
Who never took a bath,
Acquired a certain measure of renown,
And after school he sold the most amazing pictures
In my home town.

That fellow was no fool
Who taught our Sunday school,
And neither was our kindly parson brown.
We're recording tonight so I have to leave this line out.
In my home town.

I remember sam, he was the village idiot.
And though it seems a pity, it
Was so.
He loved to burn down houses just to watch the glow,
And nothing could be done,
Because he was the mayor's son.

The guy that took a knife
And monogrammed his wife,
Then dropped her in the pond and watched her drown.
Oh, yes indeed, the people there are just plain folks
In my home town.

My Home Town de Tom Lehrer

This song appears in 46 albums


The Old Dope Peddler
2019

An Evening with the Infinite Genius of Tom Lehrer
2019

Be Prepared (Live)
2013

My Home Town (Live)
2013

Essential Tom Lehrer, Vol. 2 (Live)
2013

We're Listening to Tom Lehrer, Vol. 2 (Live)
2013

I Wanna Go Back to Dixie
2013

My Home Town
2013

Lehrer, Vol. 2
2013

Revisited Remastered
2013

When You Are Old and Grey (Live)
2013

Be Prepared, It's Tom Lehrer
2013

Musical Satirist, Vol. 3
2013

Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
2013

Laugh-a-Long-a-Lehrer (The Dave Cash Collection)
2013

An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer / Tom Lehrer Revisited
2013

Live in Concert
2013

Wasted (Live)
2013

Selected Recordings (Live)
2013

When You Are Old and Grey
2013

Songs By Tom Lehrer (Remastering 2013)
2013

I Hold Your Hand in Mine
2013

Be Prepared
2013

Tom Lehrer Sings, Vol. 2 (Live)
2013

Tom Lehrer, Live Recordings
2012

Selected Recordings (Live)
2012

Songs By Tom Lehrer
2012

Songs by Tom Lehrer / More of Tom Lehrer
2012

An Evening With
2011

Evenings Wasted with Tom Lehrer
2011

The Very Best of Tom Lehrer
2011

In Concert
2011

Only The Best
2010

Songs By/An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer
2010

Entertaining
2009

Songs By Tom Lehrer
2009

My Home Town
2009

Collection of Live Recordings
2008

I Wanna Go Back To Dixie
2008

We're Listening To Tom Lehrer, Vol. 2
2008

Be Prepared (Live)
2008

Be Prepared
2008

Musical Satirist, Vol. 3
2008

My Home Town (Live)
2008

Tom Lehrer: Revisited
1960

Tom Lehrer in Concert
1960
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