When I played Tom Lehrer‘s L-Y song to my kids, they liked it so much they wanted to listen to it over and over. I didn’t mind, because the song, besides conferring an important lesson in adverb construction, is also fun. It did get old eventually, so we listened to Lehrer’s other songs, including to similarly educational Silent E, all the way to the definitely not-appropriate-for-children, and therefore even wildly popular Poisoning Pigeons in the Park. We also listened to Elements, which reminded me of the time the song made an appearance in the Breaking Bad spinoff Better Call Saul.
Before I had been aware of Lehrer, I was listening to his Austrian Doppelgänger Georg Kreisler. Kreisler wrote and performed songs in the same style than Lehrer, but of course in German. His most famous song is called… Poisoning Pigeons in the Park, obviously stolen from Lehrer.
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