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Famous Tracheotomies easy guitar chords by 
Okkervil River
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Verse 1
G
D
When I had my tracheotomy
Am
I was blue and had stopped breathing
Em
There was something
C
G
wrong with me
D
Doctors cut through the cartilage and skin
Am
At the bottom of my throat
C
Em
And then they snaked that trach tube in
D
Verse 2
Bm
Em
And I was one and a half
Am
I was my parents' only kid
Em
And they had lost two
C
Bm
before that
Em
And growing up,
C
I always knew how close I'd come
D
Well, that must have been scary, Mom
Verse 3
G
D
Gary Coleman, he was "Arnold" on TV
Am
Well, I grew up watching him and
Em
Conrad Bain and Kimberly
C
G
D
It turns out that he had
a trach scar too
Am
Where they cut into his throat
C
And then they threaded that
Em
tube through
D
Verse 4
Bm
Em
But that was much later on
Am
Em
In the year that he turned forty when his
C
Bm
fanbase was all gone
And his health was so touch-and-go
Em
C
His His His girlfriend proposed
D
But they broke up on a TV show
Verse 5
G
D
Mary Wells, she was known as
Motown's Queen
Am
But laryngeal cancer left
Em
C
her unable to sing
G
D
They tried radiation, multiple surgeries
Am
But she didn't have insurance
C
Em
D
and lost almost everything
Verse 6
Poor thing
Bm
Em
But Diana Ross helped with her bills
Am
ArethaFranklin tried her very
Em
C
best to help out Mary Wells
Bm
And Dionne Warwick did
Em
all she could do
C
And Mary Wells, she pulled through
D
For one more year or two
Verse 7
G
Dylan Thomas looked com
D
pletely pale and weak
Am
On a trip to New York City to
Em
C
promote his poety
G
Three straight days of drinking out
D
in Greenwich and Chelsea
Am
He was taken to the hospital,
C
Em
turned blue and not breathing
D
Verse 8
D
Bm
Em
And Caitlin Thomas said
Am
When she walked into St Vincent's
Em
C
Bm
"Is the bloody man dead yet?"
Em
And later that day she got so
C
drunk she was restrained
D
And her husband slipped away
Verse 9
G
D
Dm
D
Ray Davies had a tracheotomy
Am
Em
He was at St. Thomas' Hospital in London,
C
G
aged thirteen
D
And during his long recovery
Am
D
Nurses put him in a wheelchair
Am
C
Em
And they'd wheel him out onto
D
a balcony (on a balcony)
Verse 10
Bm
Em
And down that evening sun did sink
Am
Painting London and the river and that
Em
C
freaked-out future future Kink
Bm
Waterloo lit up for one sick
Em
kid
C
D
And, at twenty-three, he he recorded a song about it
Outro 1
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