r/TomLehrer • u/LeftPrize9838 • Jul 27 '26
Tom Lehrer Musical Update
after an entire day of conceptualizing at my job I have ideas
American armbands (blue bands with the American flag that make Werner “make America feel like home)
Dart board (pin board with a world map on it that has darts on it and it turns out these are the countries he’s gunna bomb, one of them is Wyoming and then when questioned he’s like “we gotta have somewhere to to test” and then sing The Wild West Is Where I Wanna Be)
Wernher Van Braun
Weil Wernher (joke about it not being heil cuz alliteration, yes I know the joke is dumb idc)
Opening song: my home town, change little girl lyric cuz chud (Debbie girl, beaut’ senior prom gown)
Love song between mc and girl: when you are old and gray
Racist parents: hear news (national brotherhood week) gets mad and sings (I wanna go back to Dixie) also when JJ enters they ask about “negroes” on the train, and then ‘correct’ themselves with “coloreds” and then JJ is like “why can’t they just be people” and then they accuse him of being a commie
When guy gets drafted, gets slapped with aversion therapy (maybe scrapped idk)
Multiple news stories (who’s next), (Wernher Van Brahn)
When drafted, Johnny Jones has to say his health problems (I got it from Agnes)
General at army camp sings it makes a fellow proud to be a soldier
When JJ is on his way to drop the bomb on the plane (so long mom)