2 August—Brilliant mathematician and equally brilliant musical satirist Tom Lehrer died a week ago. He was only 97. In 2020, he put the music and lyrics for all the songs he’d written into the public domain: “I no longer retain the rights to any of my songs. So help yourselves, and don’t send me any money.”

In 2022, Tom Lehrer formally relinquished the copyright and performing/recording rights for his songs, making all music and lyrics composed by him free for anyone to use, and established a website from which all of his recordings and printable copies of all of his songs can be downloaded: “This website will be shut down at some date in the not too distant future, so if you want to download anything, don’t wait too long.”

As of today, the website is alive and well—and a phenomenal source of phenomenal comment and entertainment.

Here are five Tom Lehrer gems. But don’t fail to get them all from the website, tomlehrersongs.com: