I'm a Genius Songtext
von Ray Jessel

I do have another problem, too. It′s an ongoing problem. I don't know
Whether anybody else here has a similar problem. It seems I′m a look-
Alike. I walk down the street and kids yell out "Einstein! Einstein!
" I'm kind of like a sighting, like Elvis only for intellectuals
So, it kind of bugged me for a while, but finally I said to myself
"Why fight it? Go with it." So tonight, here is a number from the
Album "Einstein Sings." And you thought I was just a mathematician

I'm ze greatest in ze field of physics, theoretical
My name is Albert Einstein, but you can call me Al
I′ve heard some people natter
There′s others just as smart as me
Like all things, it's a matter of relativity
A brighter brain than mine, that′s a nonstarter
A few perhaps are cuter, but none smarter
Proof, you insist? Okay, let's play a small game
Let′s make a list of who's even in ze ballgame


Shakespeare? Eh
Mozart? Maybe
Shakespeare was good, Mozart was good
But me? I′m a genius
Van Gogh wasn't bad, Thoreau rates a tad
But me? I'm a genius
There′s Machiavelli, there′s Keats and there's Shelley
And Madame Curie and ze rest
But like Bach and like Handel
They can′t hold a candle to me, I'm the best
Ben Franklin was fair, and so was Flaubert
And Voltaire wasn′t terrible
Rimbaud sure could rhyme, Rousseau was sublime
But I'm incomparable
There′s Haydn and Dryden, Cervantes, the Brontës
But calls 'em ze brainiest, bah!
They're all smart, they′re all bright
They′re okay, they're all right
But there′s only one genius, moi!


Moi, mwah, mwah, mwah!
Two cheers for Rembrandt and Emmanuel Kant
But me? I'm a genius
Alexander ze Great next to me is third-rate
Just like Paganini is
There′s Igor Stravinsky, Nijinsky and Minsky
And Homer, of course, rates an odd
There's Newton and Nietzsche, and Pavlov is peachy
But me? Ha ha, I′m a God!
Monet, Rabelais, throw in Escoffier
His soufflé was quite edible
And Doctor Heimlich, that maneuver was slick
But ick bin incredible
Euripides, Thucydides did not write stupidities
You sure can give dem a "C"
They're not dim, they're not dumb
They′re much smarter than some
But genius? Fiddle-dee-dee
Some say Puccini is
Some say Fellini is
Maybe the guy who first put mustard on a beanie is?
Nah, there′s just one genius: me!
Who said MC squared equals E? That's me!

Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much