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Tom Lehrer on Amazon.com: www.amazon.com Tom Lehrer songs on iTunes (outside the US): www.apple.com The song in this video was written by Lehrer as early as 1952 or 1953 (may be even earlier), years before a German version appeared, for which Lehrer did not get any credit. Sometimes Lehrer himself would cover other people’s songs, but they were always credited. “Poisoning Pigeons In The Park” is a true Tom Lehrer original. Use the link below to read more about the Kreisler/Lehrer discussion …
Birdy birdy in the sky … did a turdy in my eye …. aren’t you glad the cows can’t fly ?
What do you expect? If you feed pigeons, they’ll see you as a constant food source, and they’ll never migrate.
“Life is skittled and life is beer” Now we know why he is posioning pigeons in the first place. He was drunk!
Societal attitudes toward feeding pigeons have hardened. At about this time, Mary Poppins sang “Feed the birds, tuppence a bag” as a lullaby. Nowadays, feeding the pigeons is against the law some American cities; one block in Chicago posted a sign threatening a $500 fine for doing so!
hooooooooooooooo big name
Without Tom Lehrer, we would not have the likes of Mark Russell or Weird Al Yankovic. All his songs are harmless, except to pigeons of course, and can offer a laugh when you need one. It’s a good day, when you can listen to music like this. You can understand the lyrics AND the music is enjoyable.
if you don’t like it, don’t listen, nobody twisted your arm and made you listen!!! quit forcing you opinions on those that don’t care!!! have someone explain free speech to you……. by the way, there is an on/off switch on your computer….
Yeah, but that’d kill him.
It’s spelled cyanide btw, its chemical formulae is HCN
lol, so when i go out to the park with my friends…can i slip one of those ‘cyinide’ (if spelling is wrong, soz) pills into their drink?
‘disease-ridden pests’ eh..
How will they give you disease? It’s not like you’re going to pick one up and rub it on your face, so stop worrying
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I love how he’s singing about something so sadistic in a lovely cheerful way!
Tom Lehrer is amazingly amazingness! The irish ballad is kind of a scary song, but my dad introduced me to this one! It’s fantastic! I love it at 1:54 ! =)
Certainly MARVALOUS. And so true.
Subtle. Nice.
Brilliant…. i **** pigeons in the park & city centres, “flying rats” is the best way to explain how much of a disease-ridden pest they are in urban areas.
WHY do people feed them, they’re not “cute”, why not go to the park & feed the ducks instead… would that be so hard?
In Southampton they have become so fat they can hardly fly.
Fortunately the local council has finally seen sense & is trying to discourage / make it a criminal offence for people to feed our urban pigeons.
my fav song
ah tom lehrer… a musician ahead of his time
1:08 to 1:25 is my favorite part lol
i guess its more funny if you understand it or at least most of it… lol
My first lullaby was the irish ballad, courtesy of my father
Always reminds me of him, its his 60th birthday, so i was youtubing tom lehrer. 
I love this song!!!!
this is the 1950’s Johnothan Coultan