Lehrer reuses his own Te Amo tune for a professor-and-student duet. After the two opening solos, the source places the parts in parallel columns: they overlap in performance. For linear reading, each paired passage is presented professor first, then student, with separate reprises and codas. Both complete parts are retained; the symbols pi and L are corrected against the scan, and the final grade remains a C.
s is one half g t squared
p v equals n r t
K E is one half m v squared
And T is 2 π times the square root of L over g.
I try my level best,
And I cram for ev'ry test,
And I do all my work without delaying.
I'm certainly not lazy,
But I think I'll soon go crazy,
'Cause I don't understand a word he's saying.
I hope they overlook this course,
For why I ever took this course
Will always be a mystery to me.
But still I wish I knew
Just what the dean will do
If I don't get a C.
The force is mass
Times acceleration.
Yes, the force is the mass
Times the acceleration, or more
precisely, the time derivative
of the linear momentum.
I think he said the force,
I know that word, of course,
It's all becoming clear,
But it's too late, I fear.
There he goes again!
s is one half g t squared
p v equals n r t
K E is one half m v squared
And T is 2 π times the square
root of L over g.
I try my level best, and I cram for ev'ry test,
I'm certainly not lazy, but I think I'll soon go crazy,
'Cause I don't understand a word he's saying.
I hope they overlook this course,
For why I ever took this course
Will always be a mystery to me.
But still I wish I knew just what the dean will do
If I don't get a C.
Over g
Over g
Square root of L by g.
a C
a C
If I don't get a C.