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SINGER: Tom Lehrer
SONG:The Wild West Is Where I Want To Be
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. 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.
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