People Who Died Lyrics by Jim Caroll

People Who Died Lyrics

    Teddy sniffing glue he was 12 years old
    Fell from the roof on east two-nine
    Cathy was 11 when she pulled the plug
    On 26 reds and a bottle of wine
    Bobby got leukemia, 14 years old
    He looked like 65 when he died
    He was a friend of mine

    Refrain:
    Those are people who died, died
    Those are people who died, died
    Those are people who died, died
    Those are people who died, died
    They were all my friends, and they died

    G-berg and georgie let their gimmicks go rotten
    So they died of hepatitis in upper manhattan
    Sly in vietnam took a bullet in the head
    Bobby od'd on drano on the night that he was wed
    They were two more friends of mine
    Two more friends that died / i miss 'em--they died

    Repeat refrain

    Mary took a dry dive from a hotel room
    Bobby hung himself from a cell in the tombs
    Judy jumped in front of a subway train
    Eddie got slit in the jugular vein
    And eddie, i miss you more than all the others,
    And i salute you brother/ this song is for you my brother

    Repeat refrain

    Herbie pushed tony from the boys' club roof
    Tony thought that his rage was just some goof
    But herbie sure gave tony some bitchen proof
    "hey," herbie said, "tony, can you fly?"
    But tony couldn't fly . . . tony died

    Repeat refrain:

    Brian got busted on a narco rap
    He beat the rap by rattin' on some bikers
    He said, hey, i know it's dangerous,
    But it sure beats riker's
    But the next day he got offed
    By the very same bikers

    Repeat refrain; repeat song to eddie

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