Tom Lehrer - Send the Marines - now on DVD

http://www.amazon.com/Tom-Lehrer-Collection-CD-DVD/dp/B0039TD73G/ref=sr_1_3?i...

Use the above link and get the uninterrupted Lehrer TV-performance and The Tom Lehrer Collection from Amazon.com.

http://www.shoutfactorystore.com/prod.aspx?pfid=5257149

If you live in the United States you can also buy the collection from Shout! Factory, using the above link.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/tom-lehrer/id293867859

Use the above link to buy Tom Lehrer's songs on iTunes.

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Yes, if you buy that series on DVD you will own a broadcast quality copy of this song from one of the rarest video recordings ever published on YouTube.

YouTube-version: This version of the song has had a troubled life on YouTube. It used to work, but now I'm not sure. Please add the code &fmt=18 to the page address and reload. Or, even BETTER: Click on the icon for the newer version under the video window.

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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 for online viewing only.

One YouTube user suggested that the word "Marines" should have a capital letter M. It has been changed in the title on the page. The video has also been republished with the title spelled right and in widescreen. Check under video responses, or click the user name and visit the channel's front page.

The channel is Lehrer only. Here is a link to a NEW channel support page:

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

© 2011 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_the_nrk/1.3698504

Category:

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• musical

[adoreslaurel]

How up to date was this guy in 1959,nothing has changed since.

[6funswede]

@adoreslaurel, yes, this is true. Tom Lehrer was ahead of his time, and he still is.

[joaormedeiros]

"to the shores of tripoli...." seems like a little premonition to me

[6funswede]

@joaormedeiros, you said it.

[TheDeepEndShow1]

This should be used as an anthem for the Libyan war.

[timenright7]

@Helmetcleaver  I was just about to post pretty much the same thing... do people actually not realize that we've fought in Libya before?

[DWBHA]

I nominate this for the official Terran anthem

[elementalkirby]

StarCraft 2

[SuperSephiroth13]

@blargation wow you need really need to learn the hymn

[blargation]

@joaormedeiros Nope. It's part of the Marines Hymn. "From the Halls of Montezuma, to the shores of Tripoli, we will fight for right and freedom, and then to keep out honor clean."

[Atvishees]

Well, we had our very own Leonardo Da Vinci for parachutes and tanks.

We had our very own Jules Vernes for submarines and rockets.

And... it seems we also had our Tom Lehrer for Afghanistani Peacekeepings and Lybian Springs.

[Fred50099]

Thanks!

[thenutintheushanka18]

The funniest part is that as a conservative, I agree with everything he's saying, even though I know he's being satirical.

[thenutintheushanka18]

Tom Lehrer was in the Army... Interservice Rivalry, anyone?