Famous Tracheotomies chords by
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Verse 1

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When I had my tracheotomy

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I was blue and had stopped breathing

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There was something

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wrong with me

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Doctors cut through the cartilage and skin

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At the bottom of my throat

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And then they snaked that trach tube in

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Verse 2

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And I was one and a half

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I was my parents' only kid

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And they had lost two

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before that

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And growing up,

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I always knew how close I'd come

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Well, that must have been scary, Mom

Verse 3

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Gary Coleman, he was "Arnold" on TV

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Well, I grew up watching him and

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Conrad Bain and Kimberly

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It turns out that he had

a trach scar too

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Where they cut into his throat

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And then they threaded that

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tube through

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Verse 4

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But that was much later on

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In the year that he turned forty when his

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fanbase was all gone

And his health was so touch-and-go

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His His His girlfriend proposed

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But they broke up on a TV show

Verse 5

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Mary Wells, she was known as

Motown's Queen

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But laryngeal cancer left

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her unable to sing

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They tried radiation, multiple surgeries

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But she didn't have insurance

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and lost almost everything

Verse 6

Poor thing

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But Diana Ross helped with her bills

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ArethaFranklin tried her very

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best to help out Mary Wells

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And Dionne Warwick did

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all she could do

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And Mary Wells, she pulled through

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For one more year or two

Verse 7

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Dylan Thomas looked com

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pletely pale and weak

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On a trip to New York City to

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promote his poety

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Three straight days of drinking out

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in Greenwich and Chelsea

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He was taken to the hospital,

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turned blue and not breathing

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Verse 8

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And Caitlin Thomas said

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When she walked into St Vincent's

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"Is the bloody man dead yet?"

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And later that day she got so

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drunk she was restrained

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And her husband slipped away

Verse 9

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Ray Davies had a tracheotomy

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He was at St. Thomas' Hospital in London,

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aged thirteen

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And during his long recovery

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Nurses put him in a wheelchair

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And they'd wheel him out onto

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a balcony (on a balcony)

Verse 10

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And down that evening sun did sink

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Painting London and the river and that

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freaked-out future future Kink

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Waterloo lit up for one sick

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kid

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And, at twenty-three, he he recorded a song about it

Outro 1

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