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POLAROID PHOTOGRAPHY SONG (short version)

written for a 1972 Polaroid promotional film

words by Tom Lehrer

tune: "The Major General's Song" from The Pirates of Penzance (Gilbert and Sullivan)


(first 4 lines piano only)

There's infra-red photography and high-speed oscillography,
Micrography, macrography, and also keratography,
Spirography, spectrography, diffraction crystallography,
Thermography, holography, and autoradiography.

There's micrometallography and paper chromotography,
Seismography, myography, and color scintillography,
In short in every field from cosmic rays to choreography,
There's bound to be a way of using Polaroid photography. (gasp! )