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- The_Old_Dope_Peddler abstract ""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 recording on Tom Lehrer Revisited in 1960.The song is a parody of a popular tune well known at the time, "The Old Lamp-Lighter" by Charles Tobias and Nat Simon, which was a hit first for Kay Kyser in 1947, and continued to have popular new recordings to 1960. The sticky-sweet verses of the original asserted thatHe made the night a little brighterWherever he would goThe old lamplighterOf long, long agoIt goes on to say that if there were sweethearts in the dark, "he'd pass the light and leave it dark," and concludes by explaining that now, the old lamplighter turns the stars on at night and turns them off at dawn.Lehrer's parody switches the songs protagonist to "the Old Dope Peddler" selling "powdered happiness". It has lines like this... He gives the kids free samples because he knows full well that today's young, innocent faces will be tomorrow's clienteleThe song was banned from broadcast by the BBC In later years, Lehrer apparently came to regret writing the song, stating that the lyrics seemed funny at the time; but today seem "...almost chilling."Lehrer's performance is sampled in the track "Dope Peddler" by 2 Chainz on his 2012 album Based on a T.R.U. Story. The song was also covered by Meat Puppets.".
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- The_Old_Dope_Peddler comment ""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 recording on Tom Lehrer Revisited in 1960.The song is a parody of a popular tune well known at the time, "The Old Lamp-Lighter" by Charles Tobias and Nat Simon, which was a hit first for Kay Kyser in 1947, and continued to have popular new recordings to 1960.".
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