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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The Old Dope Peddler
by Tom Lehrer
C Bb7 A7
When the shades of night are falling,
Dm G7 C
Comes a fellow ev'ryone knows,
C#dim Dm
It's the old dope peddler,
C G7 C G7 c G7
Spreading joy wherever he goes.
C Bb7 A7
Ev'ry evening you will find him,
Dm G7 C
A-round our neighborhood.
C#dim Dm
It's the old dope peddler
C G7 c c7
Doing well by doing good.
F Em
He gives the kids free samples,
Dm C
Be-cause he knows full well
Dm G7 A7
That to-day's young innocent faces
D7 Dm7 G7
Will be to-morrow's clientele.
C Bb7 A7
Here's a cure for all your troubles,
Dm G7 C
Here's an end to all dis-tress.
C#dim Dm
It's the old dope peddler
C G7 C
With his powdered ha-happiness.
by Tom Lehrer
C Bb7 A7
When the shades of night are falling,
Dm G7 C
Comes a fellow ev'ryone knows,
C#dim Dm
It's the old dope peddler,
C G7 C G7 c G7
Spreading joy wherever he goes.
C Bb7 A7
Ev'ry evening you will find him,
Dm G7 C
A-round our neighborhood.
C#dim Dm
It's the old dope peddler
C G7 c c7
Doing well by doing good.
F Em
He gives the kids free samples,
Dm C
Be-cause he knows full well
Dm G7 A7
That to-day's young innocent faces
D7 Dm7 G7
Will be to-morrow's clientele.
C Bb7 A7
Here's a cure for all your troubles,
Dm G7 C
Here's an end to all dis-tress.
C#dim Dm
It's the old dope peddler
C G7 C
With his powdered ha-happiness.
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