Oops, I Pulled a Malania

I realized, just today, that Nazi/Schmazi is an expression that I inadvertently/unwittingly lifted (don't want anyone to confuse me with Malania Trump next time I'm on the Beach or writing something) from Tom Lehrer of Harvard Square and TW3 fame ... it was in a ditty titled Wernher von Braun that he uses this expression. 

"May You Live and Prosper," Old Fellow! So, here's the lyrics ... I think, by the way, quite fitting and appropriate for the Election Cycle in which Americans now live!

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Tom Lehrer's Wernher von Braun

And what is it that put America in the forefront of the nuclear nations? and what is it that will make it possible to spend 20 billion dollars of your money to put some clown on the moon? well,

it's good old American know-how, that's what. as provided by good old Americans like Dr. Wernher von Braun.

Gather round while I sing you of Wernher von Braun,

A man whose allegiance

Is ruled by expedience.

Call him a Nazi, he won't even frown.

"ha, Nazi sch-mazi," says Wernher von Braun.

Don't say that he's hypocritical,

Say rather that he's apolitical.

"once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?

That's not my department," says Wernher von Braun.

Some have harsh words for this man of renown,

But some think our attitude

Should be one of gratitude,

Like the widows and cripples in old London town

Who owe their large pensions to wernher von braun.

You too may be a big hero,

Once you've learned to count backwards to zero.

"in german or in english I know how to count down,

And I'm learning Chinese," says wernher von braun.