Poisoning Pigeons In The Park (Live)-Tom Lehrer

[ti:Poisoning Pigeons in the Park (Live)] [ar:Tom Lehrer] [al:An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer, Live] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.98]I'd like to take you now on [00:02.69]Wings of song as it were [00:04.11] [00:04.97]And try and help you forget [00:06.74]Perhaps for a while [00:08.11]Your drab wretched lives [00:09.45] [00:12.12]Here is a song all about [00:13.30]Springtime in general [00:14.51] [00:15.17]And in particular about [00:16.22]One of the many delightful [00:17.41]Pastimes that the coming [00:18.49]Of spring affords us all [00:19.81] [00:27.34]Spring is here [00:28.71]A suh puh ring is here [00:30.07] [00:30.78]Life is skittles and life is beer [00:33.78]I think the loveliest time [00:35.73]Of the year is the spring [00:37.49]I do don't you Course you do [00:39.81] [00:40.64]But there's one thing [00:41.85]That makes spring complete for me [00:43.37] [00:44.18]And makes every Sunday [00:45.91]A treat for me [00:49.04] [00:49.82]All the world seems in tune [00:53.17]On a spring afternoon [00:54.64]When we're poisoning [00:55.70]Pigeons in the park [00:56.81] [01:01.30]Every Sunday you'll see [01:02.88]My sweetheart and me [01:04.49]As we poison the [01:05.41]Pigeons in the park [01:06.56] [01:10.49]When they see us coming [01:11.97]The birdies all try an' hide [01:13.50] [01:14.75]But they still go for peanuts [01:16.04]When coated with cyanide [01:18.78] [01:19.46]The sun's shining bright [01:20.89]Everything seems all right [01:22.50]When we're poisoning [01:23.38]Pigeons in the park [01:25.02] [01:32.37]We've gained notoriety [01:33.67]And caused much anxiety [01:35.10]In the Audubon Society [01:36.97]With our games [01:38.04] [01:38.64]They call it impiety [01:40.37]And lack of propriety [01:41.94]And quite a variety [01:43.58]Of unpleasant names [01:45.33]But it's not against any religion [01:47.45] [01:48.54]To want to dispose of a pigeon [01:53.30]So if Sunday you're free [01:57.54]Why don't you come with me [01:59.02]And we'll poison the [02:00.18]Pigeons in the park [02:01.29] [02:04.05]And maybe we'll do [02:05.50]In a squirrel or two [02:07.01]While we're poisoning [02:07.86]Pigeons in the park [02:10.33] [02:13.40]We'll murder them all [02:15.16]Amid laughter and merriment [02:16.63] [02:17.70]Except for the few [02:19.10]We take home to experiment [02:20.96] [02:22.01]My pulse will be quickenin' [02:23.60]With each drop of strych'nine [02:25.16]We feed to a pigeon [02:26.71]It just takes a smidgin [02:28.17]To poison a pigeon in the park [02:30.40]Poisoning Pigeons in the Park (Live) - Tom Lehrer