People Who Died Lyrics - Jim Carroll

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