The Old Dope Peddler

July, 1955

The Old Dope Peddler"When the shades of nightare falling,Comes a fellow everyone knows.It's the old dope peddler,Spreading joy wherever he goes."Should you chance to hear this sugarcoated vitriol, rendered by a rather threadbare tenor voice with an equally threadbare piano accompaniment, you'll know that Tom Lehrer is loose again.Be warned: this is a dangerous man, a shatterer of illusions, a mocker of traditions, a cruel deflater of our most jealously guarded shams and sentimentalitie...