Last Updated on 9 August 2025

The following list is a compilation of the 50 best songs by Tom Lehrer.

I found 11 different ranked lists online of “best Tom Lehrer songs” and pulled them all into Excel and merged them all to get this definitive compilation.  See my Methodology page for the research process that was used, including links to all 11 lists that were averaged.

  1. The Elements
  2. The Masochism Tango
  3. We Will All Go Together When We Go
  4. Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
  5. National Brotherhood Week
  6. The Vatican Rag
  7. Lobachevsky
  8. Wernher von Braun
  9. I Got It from Agnes
  10. A Christmas Carol
  11. Pollution
  12. So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III)
  13. I Hold Your Hand in Mine
  14. The Old Dope Peddler
  15. New Math
  16. (I’m Spending) Hanukkah in Santa Monica
  17. Smut
  18. My Home Town
  19. Who’s Next?
  20. Be Prepared
  21. Oedipus Rex
  22. Send the Marines
  23. When You Are Old and Gray
  24. The Hunting Song
  25. It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier
  26. The Irish Ballad
  27. Bright College Days
  28. I Wanna Go Back to Dixie
  29. Clementine
  30. The Wild West Is Where I Want to Be
  31. L-Y
  32. Fight Fiercely, Harvard!
  33. The Derivative Song
  34. The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz
  35. She’s My Girl
  36. In Old Mexico
  37. Silent E
  38. The Folk Song Army
  39. Alma
  40. That’s Mathematics
  41. MLF Lullaby
  42. N Apostrophe T
  43. Whatever Became of Hubert?
  44. George Murphy
  45. Selling Out
  46. The Subway Song
  47. S-N (Snore, Sniff, and Sneeze)
  48. O-U (The Hound Song)
  49. Trees
  50. Why Not Fight? (AKA Fight Song)

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