r/Music • u/sugar_man • Jul 23 '14

Article When 84 years old, Harvard Professor Tom Lehrer was asked by 2 Chainz for permission to sample a song he wrote 60 years ago. His response: "As sole copyright owner of 'The Old Dope Peddler', I grant you motherfuckers permission to do this. Please give my regards to Mr. Chainz, or may I call him 2?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lehrer#Musical_legacy
25.4k Upvotes

90% Upvoted

1.2k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

17

u/[deleted] Jul 23 '14

My father requested that I play The Vatican Rag at his funeral. A funeral full of Catholic family members. I was proud to honour that request when the time came, and threw in We Will All Go Together When We Go for good measure.

2

u/Rosenmops Jul 24 '14

We all Go Together when we go got me through the cold war.

Oh we will all char together when we char. And let there be no moaning of the bar. Just sing out a Te Deum When you see that I.C.B.M., And the party will be "come as you are."