I do have a cause, though, it is obscenity
I'm for it! (laughter) Thank you
Unfortunately, the civil liberties types who are fighting this issue have to fight it
Owing to the nature of the laws
As a matter of freedom of speech and stifling of free expression and so on
But we know what's really involved: dirty books are fun!
That's all there is to it.
But you can't get up in a court and say that
I suppose
It's simply a matter of freedom of pleasure,
A right which is not guaranteed by the Constitution, unfortunately.
Anyway, since people seem to be marching for their causes these days,
I have here a march for mine. It's called:
Smut!
Give me smut and nothing but!
A dirty novel I can't shut
If it's uncut
And unsubt-le
I've never quibbled
If it was ribald.
I would devour
Where others merely nibbled.
As the judge remarked the day that he acquitted my Aunt Hortense,
"To be smut
It must be ut-
Terly without redeeming social importance."
Por
Nographic pictures I adore
Indecent magazines galore
I like them more
If they're hardcore
Bring on the obscene movies, murals, postcards, neckties, samplers, stained
Glass windows, tattoos, anything!
More, more, I'm still not satisfied!
Stories of tortures
Used by debauchers
Lurid, licentious and vile
Make me smile
Novels that pander
To my taste for candor
Give me a pleasure sublime
Let's face it I love slime!
Old books can be indecent books
Though recent books are bolder
For filth, I'm glad to say
Is in the mind of the beholder
When correctly viewed
Everything is lewd
I could tell you things about Peter Pan
And the Wizard of Oz - there's a dirty old man!
I thrill
To any book like Fanny Hill
And I suppose I always will
If it is swill
And really fil-thy
Who needs a hobby like tennis or philately?
I've got a hobby: rereading Lady Chatterley
But now they're trying to take it all away from us unless
We take a stand, and hand in hand we fight for freedom of the press
In other words: Smut! I love it
Ah, the adventures of a slut
Oh, I'm a market they can't glut
I don't know what
Compares with smut
Hip, hip, hooray!
Let's hear it for the Supreme Court!
Don't let them take it away!
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I do have a cause, though, it is obscenity
I'm for it! (laughter) Thank you
Unfortunately, the civil liberties types who are fighting this issue have to fight it
Owing to the nature of the laws
As a matter of freedom of speech and stifling of free expression and so on
But we know what's really involved: dirty books are fun!
That's all there is to it.
But you can't get up in a court and say that
I suppose
It's simply a matter of freedom of pleasure,
A right which is not guaranteed by the Constitution, unfortunately.
Anyway, since people seem to be marching for their causes these days,
I have here a march for mine. It's called:
Smut!
Give me smut and nothing but!
A dirty novel I can't shut
If it's uncut
And unsubt-le
I've never quibbled
If it was ribald.
I would devour
Where others merely nibbled.
As the judge remarked the day that he acquitted my Aunt Hortense,
"To be smut
It must be ut-
Terly without redeeming social importance."
Por
Nographic pictures I adore
Indecent magazines galore
I like them more
If they're hardcore
Bring on the obscene movies, murals, postcards, neckties, samplers, stained
Glass windows, tattoos, anything!
More, more, I'm still not satisfied!
Stories of tortures
Used by debauchers
Lurid, licentious and vile
Make me smile
Novels that pander
To my taste for candor
Give me a pleasure sublime
Let's face it I love slime!
Old books can be indecent books
Though recent books are bolder
For filth, I'm glad to say
Is in the mind of the beholder
When correctly viewed
Everything is lewd
I could tell you things about Peter Pan
And the Wizard of Oz - there's a dirty old man!
I thrill
To any book like Fanny Hill
And I suppose I always will
If it is swill
And really fil-thy
Who needs a hobby like tennis or philately?
I've got a hobby: rereading Lady Chatterley
But now they're trying to take it all away from us unless
We take a stand, and hand in hand we fight for freedom of the press
In other words: Smut! I love it
Ah, the adventures of a slut
Oh, I'm a market they can't glut
I don't know what
Compares with smut
Hip, hip, hooray!
Let's hear it for the Supreme Court!
Don't let them take it away!
I'm for it! (laughter) Thank you
Unfortunately, the civil liberties types who are fighting this issue have to fight it
Owing to the nature of the laws
As a matter of freedom of speech and stifling of free expression and so on
But we know what's really involved: dirty books are fun!
That's all there is to it.
But you can't get up in a court and say that
I suppose
It's simply a matter of freedom of pleasure,
A right which is not guaranteed by the Constitution, unfortunately.
Anyway, since people seem to be marching for their causes these days,
I have here a march for mine. It's called:
Smut!
Give me smut and nothing but!
A dirty novel I can't shut
If it's uncut
And unsubt-le
I've never quibbled
If it was ribald.
I would devour
Where others merely nibbled.
As the judge remarked the day that he acquitted my Aunt Hortense,
"To be smut
It must be ut-
Terly without redeeming social importance."
Por
Nographic pictures I adore
Indecent magazines galore
I like them more
If they're hardcore
Bring on the obscene movies, murals, postcards, neckties, samplers, stained
Glass windows, tattoos, anything!
More, more, I'm still not satisfied!
Stories of tortures
Used by debauchers
Lurid, licentious and vile
Make me smile
Novels that pander
To my taste for candor
Give me a pleasure sublime
Let's face it I love slime!
Old books can be indecent books
Though recent books are bolder
For filth, I'm glad to say
Is in the mind of the beholder
When correctly viewed
Everything is lewd
I could tell you things about Peter Pan
And the Wizard of Oz - there's a dirty old man!
I thrill
To any book like Fanny Hill
And I suppose I always will
If it is swill
And really fil-thy
Who needs a hobby like tennis or philately?
I've got a hobby: rereading Lady Chatterley
But now they're trying to take it all away from us unless
We take a stand, and hand in hand we fight for freedom of the press
In other words: Smut! I love it
Ah, the adventures of a slut
Oh, I'm a market they can't glut
I don't know what
Compares with smut
Hip, hip, hooray!
Let's hear it for the Supreme Court!
Don't let them take it away!
Writer: Tom Lehrer
Copyright: Lyrics © Public Domain
Copyright: Lyrics © Public Domain