We Will All Go Together When We Go - Tom Lehrer

I am reminded at this point of a fellow I used to know

Who's name was henry only to give you an idea of

What an individualist he was he spelt it h e n 3 r y

The 3 was silent you see

Henry henry was finly independent having inherited

His father's tar and feather business

And was therefore able to devote

His full time to such intellectual pursuits as writing

I particularly remember a heart wa

Novel of his about a young necropheliac

Who finally achieved

His boy hood ambition by becoming coroner

The rest of you can look it up when you get home

In addition to writing

He indulged in a good deal of philosophizing

Like so many contemporary philosophers

He especially enjoyed giving helpful

Ce to people who were happier than he was

And one particular bit of advice which I recall

Which is the reason I bring up this whole

Dreary story

Is something he said once before they took him away

The massachussetts state home for the bewilderd

He said life is like a sewer

What you get out of it depends on

What you put into it

It's always seems to me that this is precisely

Sort of dynamic positive thinking

That we so desperately need in these trying times of crisis

And universal broo-ha-ha

And so with this in mind

I have here a modern positive dynamic uplifting song

In the tradition of the great old revival hymns

This one might more accurately be termed a survival hymn

When you attend a funeral

It is sad to think that sooner or

Later those you love will do the same for you

And you may have thought it tragic

Not to mention other adje

Tives to think of all the weeping they will do

But don't you worry

No more ashes no more sackcloth

And an armband made of black cloth

Will some day never more adorn a sleeve

For if the bomb that drops on you

Gets your friends and neighbors too

There'll be nobody left behind to grieve

And we will all go together when we go

What a comforting fact that is to know

Universal bereavement

An inspiring achievement

Yes we all will go together when we go

We will all go together when we go

All suffuse with an incandescent glow

No one will have the endurance

To collect on his insurance

Lloyd's of london will be loaded when they go

Oh we will all fry together when we fry

We'll be french fried potatoes by and by

There will be no more misery

When the world is our rotisserie

Yes we will all fry together when we fry

Down by the old maelstrom

There'll be a storm before the calm

And we will all bake together when we bake

There'll be nobody present at the wake

With complete participation

In that grand incineration

Nearly three billion hunks of well-done steak

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

Oh we will all burn together when we burn

There'll be no need to stand and wait your turn

When it's time for the fallout

And saint peter calls us all out

We'll just drop our agendas and adjourn

You will all go directly to your respective valhallas

Go directly do not pass go

Do not collect two hundred dolla's

And we will all go together when we go

Ev'ry hottenhot and ev'ry eskimo

When the air becomes uranious

And we will all go simultaneous

Yes we all will go together

When we all go together

Yes we all will go together when we go