Poisoning Pigeons In The Park

Album: An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer (1959)
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  • Spring is here, spring is here
    Life is skittles and life is beer
    I think the loveliest time of the year
    Is the spring, I do, don't you? Course you do
    But there's one thing that makes spring complete for me
    And makes every Sunday a treat for me

    All the world seems in tune on a spring afternoon
    When we're poisoning pigeons in the park
    Every Sunday you'll see my sweetheart and me
    As we poison the pigeons in the park

    When they see us coming
    The birdies all try and hide
    But they still go for peanuts
    When coated with cyanide

    The sun's shining bright
    Everything seems all right
    When we're poisoning pigeons in the park

    We've gained notoriety
    And caused much anxiety
    In the Audobon Society
    With our games
    They call it impiety
    And lack of propriety
    And quite a variety of unpleasant names

    But it's not against any religion
    To want to dispose of a pigeon

    So if Sunday you're free
    Why don't you come with me
    And we'll poison the pigeons in the park
    And maybe we'll do in a squirrel or two
    While we're poisoning pigeons in the park

    We'll murder them amid laughter and merriment
    Except for the few we take home to experiment

    My pulse will be quickenin'
    With each drop of strychnine
    We feed to a pigeon
    It just takes a smidgin
    To poison a pigeon in the park Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • Karen from Manchester, NhTom Lehrer had a ton of great songs; I'm amazed that there are only 5 listed here in "Songfacts"! A few that I remember just off the top of my head are "The Masochism Tango", "The Vatican Rag" and "New Math"!
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