Here's a sample of his work - he rewrote part of "Clementine" in the style of Gilbert and Sullivan. It works best if you read it out loud quickly: That I missed her depressed her Young sister named Esther This mister to pester she tried, Now a pestering sister's A festering blister, You'd best to resist her say I. The mister resisted, The sister persisted, I kissed her - all loyalty slipped. When she said I could have her Her sister's cadaver Must surely have turned in its crypt! Yes yes yes yeeeeees.... But I love she And she loves me Enraptured are the both of we, Yes I love she And she loves I.... And will through all Eterni-tye! Tom Lehrer, "That was the Year that Was"