Pollution 1965 Tom Lehrer

Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK - 15 Nov 2002

If you visit American city,
you will find it very pretty.
Just two things of which you must beware:
Don't drink the water
and don't breath the air.
Pollution, Pollution,
they got smog and sewage and mud,
Turn on your tap and get
hot and cold running crud.

See the halibuts and the sturgeons
being wiped out by detergeons.
Fish gotta swim and birds gotta fly,
but they don't last long if they try.
Pollution, Pollution,
you can use the latest toothpaste,
and then rinse your mouth
with industrial waste.

Just go out for a breath of air,
and you'll be ready for Medicare,
the city streets are really quite a thrill,
if the hoods don't get you the monoxide will.
Pollution, Pollution,
wear a gas mask and a veil,
Then you can breathe
long as you don't inhale.

Lots of things there that you can drink,
but stay away from the kitchen sink,
throw out your breakfast garbage,
and I've got a hunch
that the folks downstream
will drink if for lunch.
So go to the city see the crazy people there,
like lambs to the slaughter,
they're drinking the water
and breathing [Fx: Cough] the air.

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Pollution 1965 Tom Lehrer
by Tom Lehrer
copyright 1965 and 1966 by Tom Lehrer
sequence and karaoke by Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK
on Friday 15 November 2002 at 19.35
in association with Doug Grierson
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