The Old Dope Peddler
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The Old Dope Peddler
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"The Old Dope Peddler" is a satirical song by Tom Lehrer. It was on Lehrer's first album Songs by Tom Lehrer from 1953, and a new live recording on Tom Lehrer Revisited in 1960. The song is a parody of a popular tune well known at the time titled "The Old Lamp-Lighter" by Charles Tobias and Nat Simon, a hit first for Kay Kyser in 1947, and continued to have popular new recordings to 1960. The verses of the original asserted that It goes on to say that if there were sweethearts in the dark, "he'd
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1953 song by Tom Lehrer
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2024-02-20T18:39:39Z
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