Biography:
Thomas Andrew "Tom" Lehrer (born 9 April 1928) is an American singer-songwriter, satirist, pianist, and mathematician. He has lectured on mathematics and musical theater.
Before attending college, Lehrer graduated from the Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, Connecticut. As an undergraduate student at Harvard University, he began to write comic songs to entertain his friends, including Fight Fiercely, Harvard (1945). Those songs later became (in a joking reference to a leading scientific journal, The Physical Review) The Physical Revue.
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Other songs:
- Poisoning Pigeons In The Park
- The Element Song
- The Elements Song
- The Hunting Song
- The Masochism Tango
- Vatican Rag
- We Will All Go Together When We Go
- The Elements (Song)
- A Christmas Carol
- Be Prepared
- Fight Fiercely Harvard
- I Got It From Agnes
- I Hold Your Hand In Mine
- I Wanna Go Back To Dixie
- In Old Mexico
- Irish Ballad
- Lobachevsky
- M L F Lullaby
- Masochism Tango
- My Home Town
- National Brotherhood Week
- Pigeons In The Park
- Pollution
- Send The Marines
- Smut
- So Long Mom
- The Folk Song Army
- The Old Dope Peddler
- The Vatican Rag
- The Wild West Is Where I Wanna Be
- The Wild West Is Where I Want To Be
- Wernher Von Braun
- Whatever Became Of Hubert
- Whos Next
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Song: Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
Artist: Tom Lehrer
Composer: Tom Lehrer
Album: An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer
Tabbed by: DJ 24th Sept 2014
C = x32010 Gdim = xx2323 Fm = 133111
A7 = x02020 Cmaj7 = x32000 G7sus4 = 330011
D7 = xx0212 C6 = x32210 A7sus4 = x02030
G7 = 320001 Faug = xx3221 Dmaj7 = xx0222
Dm7 = xx0211 F = xx3211 D6 = xx0202
Dm = xx0231 Dm6 = xx0201
Please select a star rating for this tab, many thanks
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[Intro]
C A7 D7 G7
||: / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / :||[x2]
[Verse 1]
C A7 D7 G7
Spring is here, a - s - pring is here,
C A7 D7 G7
Life is skittles, and life is beer,
Dm7 G7 C G7 C
I think the loveliest time of the year is the spring,
A7 D7 G7
(I do! Don't you? 'Course you do!)
Dm G7 C
But there's one thing that makes spring com - plete for me,
D7 G Gdim G7
And makes every Sunday a treat for me!
[Verse 2]
C Cmaj7 C6 C
All the world seems in tune, on a spring after - noon,
Gdim G7
When were poisoning pigeons in the park,
Dm Faug F Dm6
Every Sunday you'll see ...my sweetheart and me,
G7 C
As we poison the pigeons in the park!
[Verse 3]
Fm C
When they see us coming, the birdies all try and hide,
D7 G7
But they still go for peanuts when coated with cyanide,
C Cmaj7 C6 C
The sun's shining bright, every - thing seems all right,
G7 C
When were poisoning pigeons in the park!
[Break]
A7 D7 G7 C A7 D7 G7
La -la! La -la, la! Da -da, dee! Di -dee! Doo -di, doo!
[Verse 4]
G7sus4 G7 Cmaj7 C6
We've gained noto - riety, and caused much an - xiety,
G7sus4 G7 Cmaj7 C6
In the Audubon So - ciety, with our games-----,
A7sus4 A7 Dmaj7 D6
They call it im - piety, and lack of pro - priety,
A7sus4 A7
And quite a va - riety of...
D
...un - pleas - ant names!
e |--------------------2-----|
B |--------------------3-----|
G |--------------------2-----|
D |--------------------0-----|
A |---0-----2-----4----------|
E |--------------------------|
D7 G D7 G7
But its not against any re - ligion, to want to dispose of a pigeon!
[Verse 5]
G7aug C Cmaj7 C6 C
So, if Sunday is free, why don't you come with me,
Gdim G7
And we'll poison the pigeons in the park?
Dm Faug F Dm6
And maybe we'll do in a squirrel or two,
G7 C
While we're poisoning pigeons in the park,
Fm C
We'll murder them all, amid laughter and merriment,
D7 G7
Ex - cept for the few we take home to experiment!
[Verse 6]
C Cmaj7
My pulse will be quickening,
C6 C D7 G7
With each drop of strychenine we feed to a pigeon,
D7 G7 D7 G7 C G7 C
It just takes a smidgin to poison a pigeon in the park!
Artist: Tom Lehrer
Composer: Tom Lehrer
Album: An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer
Tabbed by: DJ 24th Sept 2014
C = x32010 Gdim = xx2323 Fm = 133111
A7 = x02020 Cmaj7 = x32000 G7sus4 = 330011
D7 = xx0212 C6 = x32210 A7sus4 = x02030
G7 = 320001 Faug = xx3221 Dmaj7 = xx0222
Dm7 = xx0211 F = xx3211 D6 = xx0202
Dm = xx0231 Dm6 = xx0201
Please select a star rating for this tab, many thanks
=====================================================================
[Intro]
C A7 D7 G7
||: / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / :||[x2]
[Verse 1]
C A7 D7 G7
Spring is here, a - s - pring is here,
C A7 D7 G7
Life is skittles, and life is beer,
Dm7 G7 C G7 C
I think the loveliest time of the year is the spring,
A7 D7 G7
(I do! Don't you? 'Course you do!)
Dm G7 C
But there's one thing that makes spring com - plete for me,
D7 G Gdim G7
And makes every Sunday a treat for me!
[Verse 2]
C Cmaj7 C6 C
All the world seems in tune, on a spring after - noon,
Gdim G7
When were poisoning pigeons in the park,
Dm Faug F Dm6
Every Sunday you'll see ...my sweetheart and me,
G7 C
As we poison the pigeons in the park!
[Verse 3]
Fm C
When they see us coming, the birdies all try and hide,
D7 G7
But they still go for peanuts when coated with cyanide,
C Cmaj7 C6 C
The sun's shining bright, every - thing seems all right,
G7 C
When were poisoning pigeons in the park!
[Break]
A7 D7 G7 C A7 D7 G7
La -la! La -la, la! Da -da, dee! Di -dee! Doo -di, doo!
[Verse 4]
G7sus4 G7 Cmaj7 C6
We've gained noto - riety, and caused much an - xiety,
G7sus4 G7 Cmaj7 C6
In the Audubon So - ciety, with our games-----,
A7sus4 A7 Dmaj7 D6
They call it im - piety, and lack of pro - priety,
A7sus4 A7
And quite a va - riety of...
D
...un - pleas - ant names!
e |--------------------2-----|
B |--------------------3-----|
G |--------------------2-----|
D |--------------------0-----|
A |---0-----2-----4----------|
E |--------------------------|
D7 G D7 G7
But its not against any re - ligion, to want to dispose of a pigeon!
[Verse 5]
G7aug C Cmaj7 C6 C
So, if Sunday is free, why don't you come with me,
Gdim G7
And we'll poison the pigeons in the park?
Dm Faug F Dm6
And maybe we'll do in a squirrel or two,
G7 C
While we're poisoning pigeons in the park,
Fm C
We'll murder them all, amid laughter and merriment,
D7 G7
Ex - cept for the few we take home to experiment!
[Verse 6]
C Cmaj7
My pulse will be quickening,
C6 C D7 G7
With each drop of strychenine we feed to a pigeon,
D7 G7 D7 G7 C G7 C
It just takes a smidgin to poison a pigeon in the park!
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