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# Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 14:25:51 -0400 (EDT) From: "Mathew L. Needleman" <mln6614@is.nyu.edu> Poisoning Pigeons in the Park music and lyrics by Tom Lehrer from the album, An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer Arranged for the guitar by Mathew Needleman (mln6614@is.nyu.edu). If you make improvements to this arrangement, please e-mail them to me. If there is interest, I think there a couple more Tom Lehrer songs that could work on the guitar. The rhythm changes at different points during the song. Sometimes it better to strum a chord only once when indicated.
C Spring is A7 here, a-suh-puh-D7ring is G7 here. C Life is A7 skittles and D7 life is G7 beer. C I think the G7 loveliest C time of the G7 year is the C spring. Dont A7 you' D7 Course you G7 do. But theres Dm one thing that makes spring C complete for me, And D7 makes every Sunday a G treat for G7 me.
All the C world seems in tune On a spring afternoon, When were poisoning pigeons in the G7 park. Every Dm Sunday youll see My sweetheart and me, As we G7 poison the pigeons in the C park.
When F they see us coming, the C birdies all try anhide, But they D7 still go for peanuts when G7 coated with cyanide. The C suns shining bright, Everything seems all right, When were D7 poisoning G7 pigeons in the C park.
Weve G7 gained notoriety, And C caused much anxiety In the G7 Audubon Society With our C games. They A7 call it impiety, And lack of propriety, And quite a variety Of unpleasant D names. But its D7 not against any reGligion To D7 want to dispose of a G7 pigeon.
G7 So if C Sunday youre free, Why dont you come with me, And well poison the pigeons in the G7 park.
And Dm maybe well do In a squirrel or two, While were G7 poisoning pigeons in the C park.
Well F murder them all amid C laughter and merriment, ExD7 cept for the few we take G7 home to experiment. My C pulse will be quikenin With each drop of strychnine We D7 feed to a G7 pigeon. It D7 just takes a G7 smidgen! To [D7] poison A [G7] pigeon in the [C] park. [G7] [C]