Speaking of tortured rhymes, which album has “Bright College Days”?
Open up the spigot
Pour the beer and swig it
And Gaudeamus Igit-
ur.
And
Soon you’ll be out amid the cold world’s strife
Soon you’ll be sliding down the razor blade of life
And “AN Evning Waste…” also has the “Masochism Tango” on it!
I ache for the touch of your lips, Dear,
But much more for the touch of your whips, Dear.
You can raise welts
Like nobody else,
As we dance to the Masochism Tango.
Now it’s fiesta time
In Ak-ron Oh-hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh-iiiiii-o
OK, a slight hijack here:
I’ve been a Tom Lehrer fan for about 30 years now, and there’s one or two lyrics I’ve never figured out.
This is one of them!
What the f**k does “Gaudeamus Igitur” mean? Or what’s the reference/joke?
And if anyone really wants to contribute to my Tom Lehrer reference understanding, I think my very first post on these boards asked about the “Stanleyville” reference from MLF Lullaby:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=81383
Answers to these will give me the same satisfaction I received after reading the lyrics from Tom Foolery and learning that the “Take us to your leader (sorry about that)” line from Whatever Became of Hubert was a pun on the German “lieder”.
Back to the OP:
Get them ALL!
richardb
As I understand it, Gaudeamus Igitur is a student drinking song written during the 18th century, which makes it kind of funny that it’s sometimes sung at graduation.
As for Lehrer, I grew up listening to him and have all three of his original albums. They still make me laugh. 
That’s funny; I always thought he was singing something like “Golly I will zing to her” which means this song the intellectual equivalent to “Louie, Louie.”
Gaudeamus Igitur it is… at least according to Too Many Songs by Tom Lehrer a book of Lehrer sheet music that I have (I am slowly learning to play The Masochism Tango)
from The Annotated Pratchett File :
More on “Gaudeamus Igitur” (since I brought it up) for the benefit of richardb…it was featured in the 1924 Sigmund Romberg operetta, The Student Prince. (I was raised on the soundtrack from the 1954 Mario Lanza movie, and will burst into a chorus of “Beloved” at the drop of a hat…) Anyway, it became a Hollywood cliche: if you want a shorthand way to establish that a scene is taking place on a college campus, just show an ivy-covered building, students clutching books walking to and fro, and play 4 bars of “Gaudeamus Igitur” on the soundtrack. Click here and you’ll hear what I mean.
I remember Sam!
He was the villiage idiot
And though it seems a pity it
Was so
He loved to burn down houses just to watch the glow
But nothing could be done
Because he was the mayor’s son
Haven’t listened to Tom for awhile. I think I’ll break out the CD’s tonight.