Tom Lehrer - Poisoning Pigeons in the Park - with intro

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Enable 480p and use the arrow icon! "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" is now REPUBLISHED yet another time to celebrate a lot of video views for the first two versions published to YouTube. Why? Well, to offer the song in (even) slightly better quality. The old version is still on the channel, but use HQ if possible and play back the video on a single YouTube page to get a bigger video window.

The song in this video was written by Lehrer as early as 1952 or 1953 (may be even earlier), years before an Austrian version appeared, for which Lehrer did not get any credit. Sometimes Lehrer himself would cover other people's songs, but they were always credited. "Poisoning Pigeons In The Park" is a true Tom Lehrer original. Use the link below to read more about the Kreisler/Lehrer discussion:

http://home.broadpark.no/~emeyn/tl/kr...

Some people have written messages to this channel, angered because of the posting of this song. They are "friends of all animals", which basically means that they didn't get it.

In 2008 Lehrer really said "OK" to "The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel" on YouTube, as long as the performance is not altered and as long as it's free in the YouTube flash video format.

Click on the user name and visit the channel's front page. The channel is Lehrer only. And here is a link to the channel's support page:

http://home.broadpark.no/~emeyn/tl/

(The National) Audobon Society is here:

http://www.audubon.org/

© Tom Lehrer

Recording date: September 11th 1967
Format: Ampex Quadruplex PAL 4:3
Status: A very rare recording
Storage: Sony Digital Betacam
2009 YouTube Source: 720 X 576 mp4 with H.264 compression
Production and preservation: The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation - the NRK, Norway. More here:

http://www.nrk.no/informasjon/about_t...

• Category

  Comedy

[sarkybstard]

I always thought he sang 'Autobahn Society', as a reference to the changes in attitudes brought about by travel. This information is very useful.

[6funswede]

Er....well, if people take the time to read the whole video description, they can actually visit (The National) Audobon Society. I´d never post a single video on YouTube without a proper video description.

[milsani1991]

This is stolen by Tom Lehrer!

The original is made by Georg Kreisler, an austrian satirist.

[6funswede]

@milsani1991, you are wrong. Please open and read the video description under the video window.

[mabarry3]

Wanna meet next Tuesday? Or is Sunday just the best day for it?

[6funswede]

@SimuLord, needless to say, I loved this comment.

[TheAnubisDrake]

LOL Singing a secularists song at a church meeting :D

[SlugMcSlug]

We sang this song at a full moon celebration at our church last night so I looked it up and found this. Awesome.

[TripinFL]

Dr. Paul Bearer,used to lip sync this on Creature Feature on WTOG in Tampa when i was a kid.

[aisddd1996]

Unglaublich! Sehr, sehr komisch!

[Nick Mccolm]

I learned this from the dectalk version, but bob prahan wasn't even credited.

[Jimmy Saville]

This was played at my nans house the night she died, it really helped lift the mood because she liked the song and it was just amazing and will always have that memory with the song for me

[sarkybstard]

Yes indeed, and I thank you for that. It was my ignorance in the past.

[Jacob Colman]

WRONG