Chords for Lucy Kaplansky - That's Mathematics/A Song About Pi (Irving Kaplansky)
Tempo:
56 bpm
Chords used:
E
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
And the math people in the audience, well, this is for them.
Okay?
Here we go.
A little goes a long way, I guess.
Oh, the fun when two parallels meet, or a group with an action discreet,
or the thrill when some decimals repeat.
The last math song I ever heard was the Ratted Groups.
There's more.
Are the ultimate bricks finding them?
Took some devilish tricks, now we know.
There are just 26 math songs.
You get the idea, okay?
These guys probably understood that, too.
All right, so there's another math song you wrote that is much more accessible,
and it's about pi, the number pi.
3.1415926535897, it goes on forever.
And he played that sequence on the piano.
Apparently he's not the only one who did that,
because I've discovered there are other songs with that melody.
But anyway, this is the melody.
31415926535897, which is a really awful melody.
And he decided to write a song around that, and I'm going to sing it for you.
By my dad, Irving Kaplansky, the song about pi.
Through all the bygone ages, philosophers and sages
Hadn't meditated on the circle's mysteries
From Euclid to Pythagoras
From Gauss to Anaxagoras
Their thoughts had filled the libraries, folding histories
And yet there was elation throughout the whole Greek nation
[E] When Archimedes did his [N] mighty computation
He said, 314109
Here's a song to sing about
Not a sigma or mu
But a well-known Greek letter, too
You can have your alphas and your great-5-8s
And omegas for a friend
That's just what a circle doesn't have
For a beginning or an end
314159
Is a ratio we don't define
2 pi times radii
And just your compounds, you can be lying
I swear, the radius times the pi
You will get the circle's face
Here's my song about pi
That your mathematicians embrace
Okay?
Here we go.
A little goes a long way, I guess.
Oh, the fun when two parallels meet, or a group with an action discreet,
or the thrill when some decimals repeat.
The last math song I ever heard was the Ratted Groups.
There's more.
Are the ultimate bricks finding them?
Took some devilish tricks, now we know.
There are just 26 math songs.
You get the idea, okay?
These guys probably understood that, too.
All right, so there's another math song you wrote that is much more accessible,
and it's about pi, the number pi.
3.1415926535897, it goes on forever.
And he played that sequence on the piano.
Apparently he's not the only one who did that,
because I've discovered there are other songs with that melody.
But anyway, this is the melody.
31415926535897, which is a really awful melody.
And he decided to write a song around that, and I'm going to sing it for you.
By my dad, Irving Kaplansky, the song about pi.
Through all the bygone ages, philosophers and sages
Hadn't meditated on the circle's mysteries
From Euclid to Pythagoras
From Gauss to Anaxagoras
Their thoughts had filled the libraries, folding histories
And yet there was elation throughout the whole Greek nation
[E] When Archimedes did his [N] mighty computation
He said, 314109
Here's a song to sing about
Not a sigma or mu
But a well-known Greek letter, too
You can have your alphas and your great-5-8s
And omegas for a friend
That's just what a circle doesn't have
For a beginning or an end
314159
Is a ratio we don't define
2 pi times radii
And just your compounds, you can be lying
I swear, the radius times the pi
You will get the circle's face
Here's my song about pi
That your mathematicians embrace
Key:
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And the math people in the audience, well, this is for them.
Okay?
Here we go.
A little goes a long way, I guess.
_ Oh, the fun when two parallels meet, or a group with an action discreet,
or the thrill when some decimals repeat.
The last math song I ever heard was the Ratted Groups.
There's more.
Are the ultimate bricks finding them?
Took some devilish tricks, now we know.
There are just 26 math songs.
You get the idea, okay?
These guys probably understood that, too.
All right, so there's another math song you wrote that is much more accessible,
and it's about pi, the number pi.
3.1415926535897, it goes on forever.
And he played that sequence on the piano.
Apparently he's not the only one who did that,
because I've discovered there are other songs with that melody.
But anyway, this is the melody.
_ _ _ _ 31415926535897, which is a really awful melody.
And he decided to write a song around that, and I'm going to sing it for you.
By my dad, Irving Kaplansky, the song about pi.
Through _ all the bygone ages, philosophers and sages
Hadn't meditated on the circle's mysteries
From Euclid to Pythagoras
From Gauss to Anaxagoras
Their thoughts had filled the libraries, folding histories
And yet there was elation throughout the whole Greek nation
[E] When Archimedes did his [N] mighty computation _
He said, _ 314109
Here's a song to sing about
Not a sigma or mu
But a well-known Greek letter, too
You can have your alphas and your great-5-8s
And omegas for a friend
That's just what a circle doesn't have
For a beginning or an end _
_ 314159
Is a ratio we don't define
2 pi times radii
And just your compounds, you can be lying
I swear, the radius times the pi
You will get the circle's face
Here's my song about pi
That your mathematicians embrace _ _ _ _ _
Okay?
Here we go.
A little goes a long way, I guess.
_ Oh, the fun when two parallels meet, or a group with an action discreet,
or the thrill when some decimals repeat.
The last math song I ever heard was the Ratted Groups.
There's more.
Are the ultimate bricks finding them?
Took some devilish tricks, now we know.
There are just 26 math songs.
You get the idea, okay?
These guys probably understood that, too.
All right, so there's another math song you wrote that is much more accessible,
and it's about pi, the number pi.
3.1415926535897, it goes on forever.
And he played that sequence on the piano.
Apparently he's not the only one who did that,
because I've discovered there are other songs with that melody.
But anyway, this is the melody.
_ _ _ _ 31415926535897, which is a really awful melody.
And he decided to write a song around that, and I'm going to sing it for you.
By my dad, Irving Kaplansky, the song about pi.
Through _ all the bygone ages, philosophers and sages
Hadn't meditated on the circle's mysteries
From Euclid to Pythagoras
From Gauss to Anaxagoras
Their thoughts had filled the libraries, folding histories
And yet there was elation throughout the whole Greek nation
[E] When Archimedes did his [N] mighty computation _
He said, _ 314109
Here's a song to sing about
Not a sigma or mu
But a well-known Greek letter, too
You can have your alphas and your great-5-8s
And omegas for a friend
That's just what a circle doesn't have
For a beginning or an end _
_ 314159
Is a ratio we don't define
2 pi times radii
And just your compounds, you can be lying
I swear, the radius times the pi
You will get the circle's face
Here's my song about pi
That your mathematicians embrace _ _ _ _ _