Jim Carroll Band People Who Died Lyrics

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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