ARTIST: Tom Lehrer TITLE: Smut Lyrics and Chords Smut Give me smut and nothing but A dirty novel I can't shut If it's uncut And unsubt- Tle / C - Cm / - G - A7 / - Am7 - / D7 - G6 - / D7 - / 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" / C - G7 - / - - C - / E7 - / Am - / / D7 - / G7 - / Por- Nographic pictures I adore Indecent magazines galore I like them more If they're hard core / C - Cm / - G - A7 / - Am7 - / D7 - Em B G7 - /
Bring on the obscene movies, murals, postcards, neckties, samplers, stained-glass windows, tattoos, anything! More, more, I'm still not satisfied!
/ C C# D Eb E F F# G - G7 - / 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 / C - / G7 - / - - C G7 / C G7 C G7 / / 1st, 2nd, 3rd / C C7 / All 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 / F - / / C - / - A7 / Dm - / Bb - / D7 - / G7 - / 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 / C - Cm / - G - A7 / - Am7 - / D7sus4 D7 G Dm6 / Hip hip hooray Let's hear it for the Supreme Court Don't let them take it away / E7 - / A7 - / Cm - G - /
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