Chords for Tom Lehrer: Lobachevsky (studio solo) (1953)
Tempo:
123.15 bpm
Chords used:
G
C
Am
E
F
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[F]
[Bb] [C] [Bb]
[Am] [Dm] [E]
[Am] [B] Who made me [E] the genius I am today?
The mathematician that others all quote.
Who's the professor that made me that way?
The greatest that ever got chalk on his coat.
One [Am] man deserves the credit.
One man deserves the blame.
And Nikolai [E] Ivanovich Lobachevsky [Am] is his name.
I, Nikolai [E] Ivanovich Lobachevsky.
I am never forget the day.
I fierce to meet the great Lobachevsky.
In one word, he told me the secret of success in mathematics.
Plagiarize.
Plagiarize.
Let no one else's [Dm] work evade your eyes.
Remember why the [E] good Lord made your eyes.
So [Am] don't shade your eyes, but [Dm] plagiarize, [E] plagiarize, [E] plagiarize.
Only be sure always to call it, please, research.
[Am] And ever since I meet this man, my life is not the same.
And [F] Nikolai [E] Ivanovich Lobachevsky [Am] is his name.
I, Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky.
[C] I am never forget the day I'm given
first original paper to write.
It was on analytic and algebraic topology
of [F] locally [G] Euclidean matrization of infinitely
differentiable [C] Riemannian manifold.
[Am] Boze moi.
This I know from nothing.
What I'm going to do?
I think of great Lobachevsky and I get idea.
Ha ha.
[G] I [C] have a friend [G] in Minsk who has [C] a friend in Pinsk.
Whose friend in Omsk [G] has friend in Tomsk
with friend in [C] Akhmolinsk.
His friend in [G]
Alexandrovsk has friend in [C] Petropavlovsk.
Whose friend somehow [G] is solving now the problem in Dnepropetrovsk.
And when his work is done, ha ha, begins [C] the fun.
[G] From [C] Dnepropetrovsk to Petropavlovsk,
by way of Eliska and Novorossiysk,
to Alexandrovsk to [G] Akhmolinsk, to Tomsk to Omsk,
to Pinsk to Minsk, [D] to me the news [G] will run.
Yes, [D] to me the news [G] will run.
And by morning, night, and afternoon, and pretty soon,
my [G] name in [B] Dnepropetrovsk is cursed.
[C] When he finds out, I publish [E] first.
[Am] And who made me a big success and brought me wealth and fame?
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name.
Hi, Nikolai Ivanovich [E] Lobachevsky.
I never forget the day [Eb] my first book is published.
Every chapter I stole from somewhere else.
Index I copied from old Vladivostok telephone directory.
This book was [D] sensational.
Pravda, ha, well, Pravda said,
zhilbil kalorika dat prinemlokha zhilay, it stinks.
But Izvestia, Izvestia said,
ya idu kudasam tsar idiot peshkom, it stinks.
Metro-Gold in Moscow buys the movie rights
[Ab] for six million rubles,
changing [F] title to The Eternal Triangle
[E] with Ingrid Bergman playing part of Hypotenuse.
And who [Am] deserves the credit and who deserves the blame?
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is [Am] his name.
[Dm]
[D] Hey!
[Db] [Bb] [Bb] [Db] [G]
[C]
[Cm] [F] [Gm]
[Bb] [C] [Bb]
[Am] [Dm] [E]
[Am] [B] Who made me [E] the genius I am today?
The mathematician that others all quote.
Who's the professor that made me that way?
The greatest that ever got chalk on his coat.
One [Am] man deserves the credit.
One man deserves the blame.
And Nikolai [E] Ivanovich Lobachevsky [Am] is his name.
I, Nikolai [E] Ivanovich Lobachevsky.
I am never forget the day.
I fierce to meet the great Lobachevsky.
In one word, he told me the secret of success in mathematics.
Plagiarize.
Plagiarize.
Let no one else's [Dm] work evade your eyes.
Remember why the [E] good Lord made your eyes.
So [Am] don't shade your eyes, but [Dm] plagiarize, [E] plagiarize, [E] plagiarize.
Only be sure always to call it, please, research.
[Am] And ever since I meet this man, my life is not the same.
And [F] Nikolai [E] Ivanovich Lobachevsky [Am] is his name.
I, Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky.
[C] I am never forget the day I'm given
first original paper to write.
It was on analytic and algebraic topology
of [F] locally [G] Euclidean matrization of infinitely
differentiable [C] Riemannian manifold.
[Am] Boze moi.
This I know from nothing.
What I'm going to do?
I think of great Lobachevsky and I get idea.
Ha ha.
[G] I [C] have a friend [G] in Minsk who has [C] a friend in Pinsk.
Whose friend in Omsk [G] has friend in Tomsk
with friend in [C] Akhmolinsk.
His friend in [G]
Alexandrovsk has friend in [C] Petropavlovsk.
Whose friend somehow [G] is solving now the problem in Dnepropetrovsk.
And when his work is done, ha ha, begins [C] the fun.
[G] From [C] Dnepropetrovsk to Petropavlovsk,
by way of Eliska and Novorossiysk,
to Alexandrovsk to [G] Akhmolinsk, to Tomsk to Omsk,
to Pinsk to Minsk, [D] to me the news [G] will run.
Yes, [D] to me the news [G] will run.
And by morning, night, and afternoon, and pretty soon,
my [G] name in [B] Dnepropetrovsk is cursed.
[C] When he finds out, I publish [E] first.
[Am] And who made me a big success and brought me wealth and fame?
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name.
Hi, Nikolai Ivanovich [E] Lobachevsky.
I never forget the day [Eb] my first book is published.
Every chapter I stole from somewhere else.
Index I copied from old Vladivostok telephone directory.
This book was [D] sensational.
Pravda, ha, well, Pravda said,
zhilbil kalorika dat prinemlokha zhilay, it stinks.
But Izvestia, Izvestia said,
ya idu kudasam tsar idiot peshkom, it stinks.
Metro-Gold in Moscow buys the movie rights
[Ab] for six million rubles,
changing [F] title to The Eternal Triangle
[E] with Ingrid Bergman playing part of Hypotenuse.
And who [Am] deserves the credit and who deserves the blame?
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is [Am] his name.
[Dm]
[D] Hey!
[Db] [Bb] [Bb] [Db] [G]
[C]
[Cm] [F] [Gm]
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_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ _ [Am] _ [Dm] _ _ _ [E] _ _
[Am] _ _ [B] Who made me [E] the genius I am today?
The mathematician that others all quote.
Who's the professor that made me that way?
The greatest that ever got chalk on his coat.
_ One [Am] man deserves the credit.
One man deserves the blame.
And Nikolai [E] Ivanovich Lobachevsky [Am] is his name.
I, Nikolai [E] Ivanovich Lobachevsky.
I am never forget the day.
I fierce to meet the great Lobachevsky.
In one word, he told me the secret of success in mathematics. _
_ Plagiarize.
_ _ Plagiarize.
Let no one else's [Dm] work evade your eyes.
Remember why the [E] good Lord made your eyes.
So [Am] don't shade your eyes, but [Dm] plagiarize, [E] plagiarize, [E] plagiarize.
Only be sure always to call it, please, research.
_ [Am] And ever since I meet this man, my life is not the same.
And [F] Nikolai [E] Ivanovich Lobachevsky [Am] is his name.
I, Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky.
[C] I am never forget the day I'm given
first original paper to write.
It was on analytic and algebraic topology
of [F] locally [G] Euclidean matrization of infinitely
differentiable [C] Riemannian manifold.
[Am] Boze moi.
This I know from nothing.
What I'm going to do?
I think of great Lobachevsky and I get idea.
Ha ha.
[G] I [C] have a friend [G] in Minsk who has [C] a friend in Pinsk.
Whose friend in Omsk [G] has friend in Tomsk
with friend in [C] Akhmolinsk.
His friend in [G]
Alexandrovsk has friend in [C] Petropavlovsk.
Whose friend somehow [G] is solving now the problem in _ Dnepropetrovsk.
And when his work is done, ha ha, begins [C] the fun.
[G] From [C] Dnepropetrovsk to Petropavlovsk,
by way of Eliska and Novorossiysk,
to Alexandrovsk to [G] Akhmolinsk, to Tomsk to Omsk,
to Pinsk to Minsk, [D] to me the news [G] will run.
Yes, [D] to me the news [G] will run.
_ And by _ _ _ morning, night, and afternoon, and pretty soon,
my [G] name in [B] Dnepropetrovsk is cursed.
[C] When he finds out, I publish [E] first.
_ _ [Am] And who made me a big success and brought me wealth and fame?
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name.
Hi, Nikolai Ivanovich [E] Lobachevsky.
I never forget the day [Eb] my first book is published. _
_ Every chapter I stole from somewhere else.
_ Index I copied from old Vladivostok telephone directory.
_ _ This book was [D] sensational.
Pravda, ha, well, Pravda said,
zhilbil kalorika dat prinemlokha zhilay, it stinks.
But Izvestia, Izvestia said,
ya idu kudasam tsar idiot peshkom, it stinks.
_ Metro-Gold in Moscow _ buys the movie rights
[Ab] for six million rubles,
changing [F] title to The Eternal Triangle
[E] with Ingrid Bergman playing part of Hypotenuse. _
And who [Am] deserves the credit and who deserves the blame?
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is [Am] his name.
_ [Dm] _
_ _ [D] Hey!
[Db] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ [Db] _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
[Cm] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ _ [Am] _ [Dm] _ _ _ [E] _ _
[Am] _ _ [B] Who made me [E] the genius I am today?
The mathematician that others all quote.
Who's the professor that made me that way?
The greatest that ever got chalk on his coat.
_ One [Am] man deserves the credit.
One man deserves the blame.
And Nikolai [E] Ivanovich Lobachevsky [Am] is his name.
I, Nikolai [E] Ivanovich Lobachevsky.
I am never forget the day.
I fierce to meet the great Lobachevsky.
In one word, he told me the secret of success in mathematics. _
_ Plagiarize.
_ _ Plagiarize.
Let no one else's [Dm] work evade your eyes.
Remember why the [E] good Lord made your eyes.
So [Am] don't shade your eyes, but [Dm] plagiarize, [E] plagiarize, [E] plagiarize.
Only be sure always to call it, please, research.
_ [Am] And ever since I meet this man, my life is not the same.
And [F] Nikolai [E] Ivanovich Lobachevsky [Am] is his name.
I, Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky.
[C] I am never forget the day I'm given
first original paper to write.
It was on analytic and algebraic topology
of [F] locally [G] Euclidean matrization of infinitely
differentiable [C] Riemannian manifold.
[Am] Boze moi.
This I know from nothing.
What I'm going to do?
I think of great Lobachevsky and I get idea.
Ha ha.
[G] I [C] have a friend [G] in Minsk who has [C] a friend in Pinsk.
Whose friend in Omsk [G] has friend in Tomsk
with friend in [C] Akhmolinsk.
His friend in [G]
Alexandrovsk has friend in [C] Petropavlovsk.
Whose friend somehow [G] is solving now the problem in _ Dnepropetrovsk.
And when his work is done, ha ha, begins [C] the fun.
[G] From [C] Dnepropetrovsk to Petropavlovsk,
by way of Eliska and Novorossiysk,
to Alexandrovsk to [G] Akhmolinsk, to Tomsk to Omsk,
to Pinsk to Minsk, [D] to me the news [G] will run.
Yes, [D] to me the news [G] will run.
_ And by _ _ _ morning, night, and afternoon, and pretty soon,
my [G] name in [B] Dnepropetrovsk is cursed.
[C] When he finds out, I publish [E] first.
_ _ [Am] And who made me a big success and brought me wealth and fame?
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name.
Hi, Nikolai Ivanovich [E] Lobachevsky.
I never forget the day [Eb] my first book is published. _
_ Every chapter I stole from somewhere else.
_ Index I copied from old Vladivostok telephone directory.
_ _ This book was [D] sensational.
Pravda, ha, well, Pravda said,
zhilbil kalorika dat prinemlokha zhilay, it stinks.
But Izvestia, Izvestia said,
ya idu kudasam tsar idiot peshkom, it stinks.
_ Metro-Gold in Moscow _ buys the movie rights
[Ab] for six million rubles,
changing [F] title to The Eternal Triangle
[E] with Ingrid Bergman playing part of Hypotenuse. _
And who [Am] deserves the credit and who deserves the blame?
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is [Am] his name.
_ [Dm] _
_ _ [D] Hey!
[Db] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ [Db] _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
[Cm] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _