Spring is Here!

[mominator]

Posted: 3/20/05 at 8:08am

Spring is here! Spring is here!
Life is skittles and life is beer!

[paradox_error]

Posted: 3/20/05 at 8:15am

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.

Music and Lyrics: Tom Lehrer
Copyright (c) Tom Lehrer

[Albin]

Posted: 3/20/05 at 8:17am

"spring will be...a little late this year. A little slow arriving...in my lonely world over here..."

PS-Spring doesn't start until early June in Western NY.
Updated On: 3/20/05 at 08:17 AM

[paradox_error]

Posted: 3/20/05 at 8:18am

well someone just mixed a little too much melancholy into the punch...

[Albin]

Posted: 3/20/05 at 8:29am

Guilty. It was the only song I could think of at the time.

How's this?

Oh the barynard is busy, in a regular tizzy
and the obvious reason is because of the season.
Ma Nature's lyrical with her yearly miracle,
spring, Spring, SPRING!!!

[wildcat]

Posted: 3/20/05 at 8:34am

I want more of the Loesser.

And how does the Rodgers & Hart "Spring is Here" go?

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 3/20/05 at 8:45am

"Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most"

Once I was a sentimental thing;
threw my heart away each spring.
Now a spring romance
hasn't got a chance.
Promised my first dance to winter.
All I've got to show's a splinter
for my little fling.

Spring this year has got me feeling
like a horse that never left the post.
I lie in my room
staring up at the ceiling.
Spring can really hang you up the most.

Morning's kiss wakes trees and flowers,
and to them I'd like to drink a toast.
But I walk in the park
just to kill the lonely hours.
Spring can really hang you up the most.

All afternoon the birds twitter-twitt.
I know the tune. This is love, this is it.
Heard it before
and don't I know the score.
And I've decided that spring is a bore.

Love seems sure around the new year.
Now it's April. Love is just a ghost.
Spring arrived on time,
only what became of you, dear?
Spring can really hang you up the most.
Spring can really hang you up the most.

Love came my way. I thought it would last.
We had our day, now it's all in the past.
Spring came along, a season of song,
full of sweet promise
but something went wrong.

Doctors once prescribed a tonic.
Sulfur and molasses was the dose.
Didn't help one bit.
My condition must be chronic.
Spring can really hang you up the most.

All alone, the party is over.
Old man winter was a gracious host.
But when you keep praying
for snow to hide the clover,
spring can really hang you up the most.