Текст песни Tom Lehrer - The Professor`s Song
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To "If You Give Me Your Attention." If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am.I`m a brilliant math`matician - also something of a ham.I have tried for numerous degrees, in fact I`ve one of each;Of course that makes me eminently qualified to teach.I understand the subject matter thoroughly, it`s true,And I can`t see why it isn`t all as obvious to you.Each lecture is a masterpiece, meticulously planned,Yet everybody tells me that I`m hard to understand,And I can`t think why.My diagrams are models of true art, you must agree,And my handwriting is famous for its legibility.Take a word like "minimum" (to choose a random word),This was performed at a blackboard, and the professor wrote:////////////////For anyone to say he cannot read that, is absurd.The anecdotes I tell get more amusing every year,Though frankly, what they go to prove is sometimes less than clear,And all my explanations are quite lucid, I am sure,Yet everybody tells me that my lectures are obscure,And I can`t think why.Consider, for example, just the force of gravity:It`s inversely proportional to something - let me see -It`s r^3 - no, r^2 - no, it`s just r, I`ll bet -The sign in front is plus - or is it minus, I forget -Well, anyway, there is a force, of that there is no doubt.All these formulas are trivial if you only think them out.Yet students tell me, "I have memorized the whole year throughEv`rything you`ve told us, but the problems I can`t do."And I can`t think why!