The Masochism Tango- Tom Lehrer

Let's just say.. I made Tom Lehrer an offer he couldn't refuse 🇮🇹 🤌. #vintage #brokenrecords #comedy #1950s #tomlehrer #italianamerican #violin

[Kayjee]

This and The Elements song are my favorites by Tom, and I was today years old when I found out he was a Harvard professor and is still alive!

[mattmilford]

You could pretty much put an entire Tom Lehrer album here

[merseyviking]

That's the kind of reaction I'd expect from a viola player 😂

[williambowes-xtsm]

This song is so funny it litterally sounds like something Gomez and Morticia Addams would be up to/dancing too on a Friday night!

[spearedtodeath]

This song always goes perfectly on my Evil Tango playlist, along with When you're Evil, King of Villain's (Voltaire) and Be Prepared (Jeremy Irons, The Lion King)

[parklloyd]

I grew up listening to Tom Lehrer. All his stuff was designed for a reaction. "The Old Dope Peddler, with his powdered happiness, " The Weiner Schnitzel Waltz, " "I Hold Your Hand in Mine, " they're all classics. Cheers!

[Isaac-hmih]

Considering the subject matter, it took me a moment to realise the kind G string being referred to at the end...

[geraldfrost]

Take your cigarette from it's holder
Burn your initials in my shoulder
Fracture my spine and declare that you're mine
As we dance to the masochism tango!

[jjcastaldo]

Wow. This song is older than I thought. I remeber a version from the late 70's. It included the line, "Last time we shared so many kisses/ I needed 34 stiches /to mend the scars / you placed (something something/ while we were doing the masochism tango"

[Hiboyboy]

That reminds me that I snapped my G-String on a cello once during class. My orchestra teacher called my mom, she didnt pick up, and left her a voicemail saying I snapped my G-String... nothing else...


If you know, you know. My mother freaked out until she learned what broke.

[eyeless_sinner]

Gomez Addams rocking out to this no doubt

[hairy-one]

who else could say, while a child, that her school performance was ruined because her G-string broke...

[sincerewilliams]

She looks really good playing violin, other than when she played her staccatos as legate it didn't look bad