TOM LEHRER Song Lyrics

Album:
"Tom Lehrer Revisited"

1) I Wanna Go Back To Dixie
2) The Wild West Is Where I Want To Be
3) The Old Dope Peddler
4) Fight Fiercely, Harvard!
5) Lobachevsky
6) The Irish Ballad
7) The Hunting Song
8) My Home Town
9) When You Are Old And Gray
10) The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz
11) I Hold Your Hand In Mine
12) Be Prepared

Album:
"That Was the Year That Was"

1) National Brotherhood Week
2) MLF Lullaby
3) George Murphy
4) The Folk Song Army
5) Smut
6) Send The Marines
7) Pollution
8) So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III)
9) Whatever Became of Hubert?
10) New Math
11) Alma
12) Who's Next?
13) Wernher von Braun
14) The Vatican Rag

Album:
"Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer"

1) Poisoning Pigeons In The Park
2) Bright College Days
3) A Christmas Carol
4) The Elements
5) Oedipus Rex
6) In Old Mexico
7) Clementine
8) It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier
9) She's My Girl
10) The Masochism Tango
11) We Will All Go Together When We Go

TOM LEHRER
TOM LEHRER REVISITED

The Old Dope Peddler

You are no doubt familiar with songs about the old lamplighter and the old umbrella man and the old garbage collector and all these lovable old characters who go around spreading sweetness and light to their respective communities. But, it's always seemed to me that there is one member of this happy band who does an equally splendid job, but who has never been properly recognized in song or story, and this is an attempt to remedy, at least in part, that deplorable situation.

When the shades of night are falling,
Comes a fellow ev'ryone knows,
It's the old dope peddler,
Spreading joy wherever he goes.
Ev'ry evening you will find him,
Around our neighborhood.
It's the old dope peddler
Doing well by doing good.

He gives the kids free samples,
Because he knows full well
That today's young innocent faces
Will be tomorrow's clientele.
Here's a cure for all your troubles,
Here's an end to all distress.
It's the old dope peddler
With his powdered ha-happiness.

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