Tom Lehrer - Sociology lyrics

rate me

Strange

Is the change

They're trying to arrange

Today in sociology

Fanatics

In their attics

Are learning mathematics

Just for sociology

Persuasion

By equation

They all feel it's much more satisfactory

They, in an ivory steeple

Far away from all people

They do research in sociology

Guys

Who wrote lies

Now present them in disguise

A cinch in sociology

Attract

Quite abstract

Without one single fact

Disblended sociology

Birds

Who used words

Now all talk in terms of X and Y and Z

They can take one small matrix

And really do great tricks

All in the name of sociology

Joes

Who wrote prose

Now write algebra, who knows

It may be sociology

They're

Everywhere

Full of Sigma and Chi squared

And full of sociology

They consult

Sounding occult

Talking like a Mathematics PhD

They can snow all their clients

By calling it science

Although it's only sociology