Tom Lehrer - The Vatican Rag

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Over the years a lot of people have been offended by this song, also on YouTube.

Now you can read Tom Lehrer's own introduction to the song, played by The Music Show in Australia when he was interviewed on the telephone a few years ago:

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Another big news story of the year (1965) concerned the Ecumenical Council in Rome, known as Vatican II. Among the things they did, in an attempt to make the church more commercial, was to introduce the vernacular into portions of the mass to replace Latin, and to widen somewhat the range of music permissible in the liturgy. But I feel that if they really want to sell the product in this secular age, what they ought to do is to re-do some of the liturgical music in popular song forms. I have a modest example here. It's called The Vatican Rag...

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Lehrer said "OK" to "The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel" on YouTube, as long as the performance is not altered and as long as it's free in the YouTube flash video format.

Click on the user name and visit the channel's front page. The channel is Lehrer only. And here is a link to a NEW channel support page:

http://home.broadpark.no/~emeyn/tl/

© Tom Lehrer

Recording date: September 11th 1967
Format: Ampex Quadruplex PAL 4:3
Status: A very rare recording
Storage: Sony Digital Betacam
Production and preservation: The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation - the NRK, Norway. More here:

http://www.nrk.no/informasjon/about_t...

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  Comedy

[6funswede]

I don't know if it's going to last. I can only say that I love this man and this song and this version of the recording...with a passion. Thanks for watching!

[DrLeroyGreen]

It really is akin to seeing Einstein, Hawking, or Carl Sagan hop up to a piano and play songs as genius as they are.

[AshBlue1989]

Playing a rag song while singing and without looking at the piano is absolutely genius.

[TovarishGlushkov1]

Is it as grave an insult to people as dogma written by elites centuries ago so as to regulate people's lives to a letter and stifle creativity and innovation. Is it not an insult that people were burned alive by churchmen because they refused to shackle their minds ? Is is an insult that thousands were murdered in the name of faux gods in the span of history ? To you, apparently not. Burn in hell, you say ? How do I go about doing that when it exists in the confines of your diseased mind ?

[torchkit]

It's not satire. It's a banal insult. Nothing more. He's nether funny nor talented. Burn in hell.

[TovarishGlushkov1]

Yes, petty people like you up in arms about an assumed offense to their chosen implausible dogma, created specifically to stifle human progress and rationality. You're quite right, nothing's changed in the past 2000 years. And that's why Tom's biting satire is damn awesome.

[helpdonate1]

another piece of shit jew

[torchkit]

A jew disrespecting Christians. What else is new? 

[Maurice Judge]

come on,more nutters comment please..