All My Heroes Were Junkies chords by Ellis Paul

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In 1968, he did shot
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s with the Doors at the Whiskey- a- Go- Go
It was on one of those hot
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Hollywood summer nights
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He says, "Jimmy came in tight leather slacks,
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it was hot as hell
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But we were drinking Jack,
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his eyes were like quarters
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Round, and black when he stepped
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under the stage lights..."
"And you know me," he says,
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"I had pawned my only camera
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I had no way to record these
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fleeting Kodak moments
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That sprung to life each and
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every Saturday night
I was too far gone back then
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to have known it..."

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Verse 2

He says, "All my heroes

were junkies,

Now all my heroes are dead

I say, "Hey Tony,

consider yourself lucky

To be a junkie in a hospital

Interlude 1

bed"

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He says, "You know Judy Garland never showed up
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When I took my walk in the Land of Oz
Though a cop did on a purple
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horse one morning
He asked me why I was staggering
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I said, 'because - because,
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because, because
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The wizard never gave me no surgeon general's
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warning

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