The Old Dope Peddler letra

You are no doubt familiar with songs about the old lamplighter and the old umbrella man and the old garbage collector and all these lovable old characters who go around spreading sweetness and light to their respective communities. But, it's always seemed to me that there is one member of this happy band who does an equally splendid job, but who has never been properly recognized in song or story, and this is an attempt to remedy, at least in part, that deplorable situation.

When the shades of night are falling,
Comes a fellow ev'ryone knows,
It's the old dope peddler,
Spreading joy wherever he goes.
Ev'ry evening you will find him,
Around our neighborhood.
It's the old dope peddler
Doing well by doing good.

He gives the kids free samples,
Because he knows full well
That today's young innocent faces
Will be tomorrow's clientele.
Here's a cure for all your troubles,
Here's an end to all distress.
It's the old dope peddler
With his powdered ha-happiness.

Tom Lehrer - Letras

• A Christmas Carol
• Alma
• Be Prepared
• Bright College Days
• Clementine
• Everybody Eat
• Fight Fiercely, Harvard!
• George Murphy
• I Got It From Agnes
• I Hold Your Hand In Mine
• I Wanna Go Back To Dixie
• In Old Mexico
• It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier
• L-Y
• Lobachevsky
• MLF Lullaby
• My Home Town
• National Brotherhood Week
• New Math
• Oedipus Rex
• Poisoning Pigeons In The Park
• Pollution
• Send The Marines
• She's My Girl
• Silent E
• Smut
• So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III)
• Thanksgiving
• That's Mathematics
• The Derivative Song
• The Elements
• The Folk Song Army
• The Hunting Song
• The Irish Ballad
• The Masochism Tango
• The Old Dope Peddler
• The Professor's Song
• The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz
• The Wild West Is Where I Want To Be
• There's A Delta For Every Epsilon
• Vatican Rag
• We Will All Go Together When We Go
• Wernher Von Braun
• Whatever Became of Hubert?
• When You Are Old And Gray
• Who's Next?