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browngirlAnd now something cheerful (unless one is a pigeon):
I love this song, not least because it makes me nostalgic for the good parts of my college experience. (Yes, I hate nostalgia. Moving right along...) The first time I ever heard this was from a bunch of nicely-dressed college students standing on the steps of Widener Library singing at the top of their lungs: HRSFA, having just celebrated the Mild Hunt (a proper foxhunt, with afternoon tea to follow, and the springtime counterpart of the autumnal, woad-bedecked Wild Hunt).
http://members.aol.com/quentncree/lehrer/pigeons.htm
Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
by Tom Lehrer
Spring is here, a-suh-puh-ring 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 an' 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 Audubon 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 all amid laughter and merriment,
Except for the few we take home to experiment.
My pulse will be quickenin'
With each drop of strych'nine
We feed to a pigeon.
(It just takes a smidgin!)
To poison a pigeon in the park.
I love this song, not least because it makes me nostalgic for the good parts of my college experience. (Yes, I hate nostalgia. Moving right along...) The first time I ever heard this was from a bunch of nicely-dressed college students standing on the steps of Widener Library singing at the top of their lungs: HRSFA, having just celebrated the Mild Hunt (a proper foxhunt, with afternoon tea to follow, and the springtime counterpart of the autumnal, woad-bedecked Wild Hunt).
http://members.aol.com/quentncree/lehrer/pigeons.htm
Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
by Tom Lehrer
Spring is here, a-suh-puh-ring 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 an' 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 Audubon 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 all amid laughter and merriment,
Except for the few we take home to experiment.
My pulse will be quickenin'
With each drop of strych'nine
We feed to a pigeon.
(It just takes a smidgin!)
To poison a pigeon in the park.
