Tom Lehrer- I Got It From Agnes

[dempro95]

What exactly is 'it'?

[Coopmueller]

@wfbgenius @THEgayASIAN100 they are talking about getting the cold. though the joke is its suppose to sound like a STD but its not.

[THEgayASIAN100]

there talking about raging anal aids XD

[lastmelonproductions]

it was a cold >w>

[kapacapabingbong]

I think he should mention it was a cold he was given

[JustMissJac]

Sharing is caring, kids!

[Kavindue]

i got it from my bother who got it from my father he got it from his friend who got it from my mother

[SimuLord]

Groucho Marx once said "any fool can tell a dirty joke and get a laugh." With all due respect to Groucho, Tom Lehrer is not just any fool!

[theYOGI2myBOBO]

OH!!! I get it now he's talking about cooties!!! =P

[NamlesIam]

@theYOGI2myBOBO yes Penis cooties

[theYOGI2myBOBO]

@NamlesIam ...OH THAT'S WHAT HE MEANT...0_0 OH GOD!!!!

[NadiaFate21]

A song about sharing STDs.... FUCKING AWESOME.

[mashmusic11235]

Tom Lehrer is awesome. If he did some 'clean' songs, they'd be even better ^-^

[nrox7]

damn! spreads pretty quickly!

[DemonDancingDove]

What on earth do you pick up kissing the Blarney stone? Aside from having the old gy there cop a feel as he keeps you from falling into the grate below the stone....

[GibsonPlayer407]

Watch this totally not be what we're all thinking.

[littleKingdompet2]

Wow, you must be really 'close' with your friends if you give them a STD. Atleast I think that's what he sings about.

[althesmith]

Yes, STD's were extremely rare in the old days. So rare that over 100,000 cases of the clap were diagnosed in the U.S. Army- during the Civil War alone. That's about 1 in 10 men. The treatment was no picnic back then, even for the milder stuff like the clap.

[thamasteroneill]

It doesn't matter what it was the important bit is it was bad...

[Candorsmayhem]

It's a cold. But he meant for people to think it's an STD.

[gladiusmordecai]

What does it mean when people are thinking it's an STD? Use your heads, people.  At the time this song was written/performed, STDs were extremely rare......

[NecoMimi43]

@gladiusmordecai Ha ha you are seriously miss informed, STDS have been around and raging for so very long. For example did you know that when Columbis and his group returned from descovering america they spred aroud a forein STD more commenly known as Goneriea. Buisy guys. Anyway that was 14th century seriously bar maids and prosetutes for centuries have been dieing of STDS. Its not even close to a new thing

[gladiusmordecai]

@NecoMimi43 I didn't say that there were no STD's, I said they were extremely rare. And before you try to call someone misinformed, try learning how to spell, kiddo.

[NecoMimi43]

@gladiusmordecai Yup spelling's taking me out in highschool. Whats up with english? Haha sorry it was a touchy subject, i had a weird exsperiance about three months ago where i was learning all about STDS in medical anatomy and my friend confided that she had one. Shes having a rough go, i got way to defencive. My bad compadre :D

[suebracklen27]

I'm going with mono. I could be wrong, but that's still what I think.

[BakuutinIgor]

Hymn of torrents!

[FibonaziProductions]

They're obviously talking about a book.

[Roxor128]

Interestingly, it takes most people a few listens to notice just how dirty this song actually is. The first listen will probably hint to the listener that "it" is a STD. Once you've picked up on that, it paints the rest of a song in a whole new (if slightly disturbing) light.

[ThePaxkivimae]

This song has incest, beastiality, gay and staight sex, this is a bit of a steep up the elements,

[Mullahgrrl]

@trillby1 Worse, or better?

[Erniethecatisawesom]

Wow, friends with benefits... :)

[gammoregan]

are there any STD's that humans can give to dogs? just wondering if this is scientifically accurate for STD's.

[MakeshiftXMannequin]

@gammoregan

well, syphilis originally came from sheep... Bahh...

[ThePaxkivimae]

@gammoregan not really, techniaclly every diesse has about a 1/1000-1000000000 perchent chance of mutateing to humans, so it could happen, but its not likely

[halorocks945]

@Perzyn you forgot about pierre

[Perzyn]

It gets better when you think about it! Consider this chan:

Agnes -> Tom; Jim ->Agnes; Louise->Jim;Harry->Louise;Mari­e->Harry;Tom->Marie

It shows, who gave "it" to whom. It's a viscious circle! Tom first gave it to Marie but than got it from Agnes. Literally what goes around, comes around!

[WonderfulLizardOfOz]

She got it from her daddy, who gives her everything.

[3Days2LiveX]

I wish Tom Lehrer would give it to me...<3

[Perzyn]

Let's see how many squicky/depraved things Tom got into this one (I use wide application, some might not find all or any of these squicky):

- extreme 'getting around'

- parental incest

- zoophilia

- homosexual threesome (Aha! Lcuky Pierre!)

- bisexuality

- patient & doctor sexual relationship

Not bad for 1:45 song created around 60ties.

[Wolfrover]

@Perzyn You left one out; the dentist counts as rape under anesthesia. Remember, "We're still wondering how".

[xXxDeadlyRavenxXx]

@Perzyn Take bisexuality outta there >.>

[undivinexxgrace]

@xXxDeadlyRavenxXx he talks about how he had sex with males and females

[xXxDeadlyRavenxXx]

@undivinexxgrace

I know e . e

That's not squicky.

[playthecard22]

@Perzyn Plus:

- murder

-necrophilia

-nuclear apocalypse

-grammar

[LeDiableBlanck]

@Perzyn Francois could be a woman, in that case it would be a Devil's Threesome (2guys, 1girl) XD

[mzmadmike]

@Perzyn The flu?

[Wanderan]

@Perzyn Your assumption is that its about a STD, consider instead the flu

[smoogirl]

@Perzyn It's about the cold. Or would you like to explain to me how someone got a sexual disease... from a rock? -_-

[Perzyn]

@smoogirl We all know Tom Lehrer's songs were innocent *cough*Be prepared*Cough* avoided controversy *cough*Old Dope Peddler; Masochism Tango*cough* and were devoid of black, dark sense of humor *cough*We WIll All Go Together When We Go*cough* you are probably right.

Can you help me interpret this part of "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.

[wfbgenius]

@smoogirl "kissing the blarney stone" isn't about a literal rock, probably kissing something that rhymes with rock. consider this, it IS impossible to get the common cold from a dog.

[Perzyn]

@wfbgenius From what I gather "Kissing the Blarney Stone" has two meanings. One is a custom of kissing certain sone in Castle Blarney in Ireland, it is told to give kisser grat eloquence. In slang it means kissing someone's butt.

[JonathanHallShow]

@smoogirl "Aha! Lucky Pierre!"

[bug9513]

@smoogirl only if you can explian getting a cold from the loo

[Lehrerfan]

"Who gets it every spring." + "She got it from her daddy..." = ...

This song has always been one of my favorites.

[drplbiftin]

hurrah for VD!

[bowserhunter1]

Tom Leher is at least part English. I think.

[bowserhunter1]

"Our dentist even got it, and we're still... wondering how."

[margot980]

Great song about STDs and STIs, which most of us back in the 60s thought happened to other people. Dirty people, ha ha ha.

Tom touches all the bases except teachers and priests. Daddies, yes.

When HIV hit the fan in the mid 80s, public savvy about STDs and STIs seemed to go somewhere. But did it? A lot of people still seem to think if they don't think about it they won't get it.

The pill didn't solve everything or anything at all. And Tom sang this in the 60s!

[RainbowPeacePotato]

i want to be your friend!

[smallbutlarge]

so should be the theme tune to jersey shore

[Chanthien]

So, just to be sure, spaniel is a kind of dog, right...?

[eziekial101]

@Chanthien

Yep, yep.

[tictactoechicken123]

@Chanthien

oh my God, this song just got so much dirtier!!!!

[frankjames6666]

@Chanthien yes, yes it is

[dramagirlie7]

@PrincessZelda888 i believe he's hinting at a sugar daddy. "who just gives her everything"

[tictactoechicken123]

@dramagirlie7

or the man is doing his daughter, either way it's a shocking song, especially for the 50s.

[rocke4444]

This song isn't about herpes because one cannot get rid of herpes. The song says Edith gets it every Spring. This would imply that it's a bacterial infection. Penicillin was used to treat STD's when this song was written. ...got it from Francois and Jacques aha, lucky Pierre!

[NecoMimi43]

ok so everyone thought STD right?

[darkiansmith]

Mid '50s? WOW! Apparently he knew something back then that I didn't know much about.

[ZeMousey]

Actually the sly part of the song is that he's satirizing perversions without directly using any naughty phrases... keeping in mind this song was written in the mid 1950s

[relightfoot]

It has to be about STDs. the "lucky pierre" thing should give it away. please tell me everyone knows what lucky pierre means

[ObaachanU]

@relightfoot i didn't. :P now i do.

[smartnbeauitful]

my teacher showed my friends n i this. now what is that saying bout him e.e lol

[TheLithiumGrrl]

It's about Herpes guys......

[KonohaElite14]

@TheLithiumGrrl how do u kno?

[bookwormx221]

When was this recorded????

[TheDaiLUpGoD]

Offical STD Advertisment...

[2Dawgz]

The idea comes from "La Ronde" by Arthur Schindler.

[Robocrat]

"She got it from her daddy who just gives her everything"

Oh my gosh!!!

[spenglerrocks95]

his spaniel has it eewwww

[yi238]

i dont think its stds.... when you really listen to it, i dont think it is.

[Bigstan2000]

@yi238 Yes, it is about STDs. What else would it be about?

[yi238]

@Bigstan2000 Teh flu? or a toy...?

[Bigstan2000]

@yi238 and that would be funny because...?

[yi238]

@Bigstan2000 Cause it sounds like hes talking about AIDS?

[mynameislyddy]

XD i was expecting it to turn out to be the flu or something XD one of those tricks where it shows how dirty your mind is lol

[veryberryshiasan]

omgosh at first I thought this song was about communism(whatever we get we share) then I thought it was about...what it's about but I didn't think it was actually that till I read in the description that it was a new song. EWWWW!!! But totally hilarious.

[LuigiEspadachin]

Is it bad I didn't click on that this was a dirty song till about halfway through it? xD

[crookedmongoose]

@LuigiEspadachin I'm pretty sure that's the point of satire like this...it draws you in with a fun tune and innocuous lyrics and before you know it you have the clap from incest and bestiality...yet another beautifully done song from Lehrer.

[evilmick66]

"She got it from her daddy who just gives her everything" Oh God!! XD

[leovinusSA]

This is one of my favourite Lehrer songs. It sounds innocent at first, then you get it and it becomes dirty, and then you really think about it and it becomes even dirtier. It's a laundry list of increasingly bizarre perversions, and I'll admit it took me three or four listens after I 'got it' to pick up on the significance of the dentist line. It's absolutely revolting, but it sounds so normal. Masterful.

[kaihillp2]

I... don't want... to know what it is... just don't give it to me...

[loonybar123]

STI

[painterkirby]

my brother decided that it was a fruitcake going around.

awesome song xD

[simbob987]

if it was herpes then how come a spaniel has it and thats just wrong if that girl got it from her dad

[MrSpockify]

And she got it from her daddy, who just gives her everything! xD

[waterweb1234]

lmao ha ha ha rofl

[Fightforitsucks]

Absolutely hilarious.

[Sanref]

r they talking about hugs?

[angela1894]

What's this song about ?

[ThingsMarchBrings]

AIDS

[smb50073]

my guess was herpes because of 1:02.

[TechBearSeattle]

Lehrer has stated that the "it" is the herpes virus.

[wightboy12345]

@TechBearSeattle

But if you follow the line, he gets it twice, and I thought herpes was a "keeper"

[onceawesterner]

Aha! Lucky Pierre!

[Fireicee1]

But I think it's like that song, "The Assumption Song" It SOUNDS like it might be nasty, but it turns out it was completely appropriate and clean.

[thevampirefrog06]

This song needs to be put to a montage of clips from one of those shows where everybody ends up sleeping with everybody else.

[2ndself]

Like Gray's Anatomy then? XD

[SmilingJack100]

It's the definitely referencing STD's there are multiple references it to being about that, all the jokes make sense if you think about it, cause it turns everything into a perversion, such as her getting it from her daddy and giving it to his spaniel, etc. It's really funny and quite nasty XD

[Zrowny]

It was probable meant at first to be like and STD, but know I think he would make it like maybe some sort of plant or something ("who gets it every spring")

[olivbrooke]

I was thinking it's a cold or something, mainly based on this phrase: "Max got it from Edith, who gets it every spring"

[TheBiggestBiscuit]

But then the "he got it from francois and jaque, lucky pierre!" bit suggests that whatever it was that he got, he was very lucky to be in that situation...

...so probably not a cold, then.

[TheDavynator0]

"lucky pierre" is a euphemism.

[nmatavka]

Lucky Pierre is the term for the middle individual in a homosexual threesome. I think it's all got to do with the clap or something.

[TheBiggestBiscuit]

Lol. Never heard that one before.

[IMLiefEriksonNotYou]

I heard somewhere that "it" was supposed to be Gonohrea, a completly curable disease, however, Tom Lehrer didnt think the song was as funny when AIDS became a problem

[xxiloveitallxx]

this is hilarious! also, very clever, as to be expected from mr lehrer :D

[barrusDemonPlucker]

This song is about a nickel

[Rohan2300]

knowing Tom, if he had to put a name on it, he wouldn't claim it was an STD or anything like that, more likely it would turn out to be something totally innocent....

because I think he'd like to shake things up a bit...

[TheDavynator0]

had tom wanted us to know its nature then he would of told us don't you think?

[MySerpentine]

Disease.

Hopefully not the sexual kind, but you never know . . .

[nmatavka]

Definitely the sexual kind.

Pierre slept with Francois and Jacques (in the middle) and got the clap. Edith sleeps with her father (naughty Edith!) and got it from him, while the dentist sleeps with his patients.

[redtraderblue]

people the guys who are saying it isn't or might not be an STD know it is they're just trolling you so calm down with the caps lock Dr Korn (or alternately they're like 8 years old in which case I wouldn't want them to know)

[beastchief]

very clever song i love it

[JADUOBE]

or maybe a kind of knowledge ;)

[PeaceOut2U07]

Nope, methinks it herpes.

[DrKorn5]

alright it seems that theres alot of really foolish people out there. THIS SONG IS ABOUT SPEADING STDS. Its a dirty song thats the whole friggen point of it.

[meanmanturbo]

Yeah, I mean, what else would Lehrer sing about? He's (was?) not one to shrink away from these things;)

[Zyxzyva]

@DrKorn5 Aw, it's no fun if you explain the joke.

[Cristaliena]

@DrKorn5 It's not just STDs... It's basically every obscenity in the known world. I'm not dirty, I would NEVER, EVER do something like that, but this song makes it hilarious.

[Leanan101]

My best guess is that its about mono flu or something like that. When you have group of people who around eachother a lot, like a group of friends or a classroom of peole, everything spreads like wildfire.

[anonymikus]

i think that tom lehrer is speaking (or singing) of herpes.

[100PercentGeeks]

Or it could of been an object or soemthing ;)

Thats the beauty of it :P

Most peoples minds will probably think of STD, But giving it away would give the song no point :P

[GINGERBEAR1991]

please will someone inform me what is he talkin about

[l0ll3rc04st3r]

a disase that is probably transferred sexually.

[BecauseICannotSing]

Not neccessarily. It's never really mentioned and it could be anything, like a gift, or the common cold.

[BlackDragonBloodLust]

jesus i hope not, someone gave it to their dog and someone else got it from their dad...

[thbvfg]

don't be ridiculous of course it's an STD or something along those lines. if it was a gift, then he'd know for sure who he got it from.

[kahbkah]

so you remember every gift you have ever gotten and who gave it to you?

[thbvfg]

if i'm mean to write a song about then yes

[dadoody]

Double meaning. STD or anything else you can imagine.

[Deathmark13]

correct, it's a metaphor for STD, but it's just some random object of some kind.

[nmatavka]

Gonorrhoea.