Okkervil River - Famous tracheotomies

^GWhen I had my ^Dtracheotomy I was b^Amlue and had stopped breathing There was some^Emthing wrong with ^Cme ^GDoctors cut through the car^Dtilage and skin At the bo^Amttom of my throat And then they sn^Caked that tr^Amach tube in ^D

And I was^Bm one and a half ^Em I was my p^Amarents only kid And they had lost^Em two before t^Chat A^Bmnd growing up,^Em I always knew how close I'd ^Ccome Well, that must have been scary, M^Dom

^GGary Coleman, he was "A^Drnold" on TV Well, I gr^Amew up watching him and ^EmConrad Bain and ^CKimberly ^GIt turns out that he had a ^Dtrach scar too Where they ^Amcut into his throat And then they ^Cthreaded that^Am tube thr^Dough

But that was ^Bmmuch later o^Emn In the y^Amear that he turned forty when his ^Emfanbase was all^C gone And his ^Bmhealth was so touch-an^Emd-go His girlfri^Cend proposed But they broke up on a TV^D show

^GMary Wells, she was kn^Down as Motown's Queen But lary^Amngeal cancer left her u^Emnable to s^Cing ^GThey tried radiation, mult^Diple surgeries But sh^Ame didn't have insurance and lost alm^Cost ^Ameveryt^Dhing

But D^Bmiana Ross helped with her ^Embills Aretha F^Amranklin tried her very best to h^Emelp out Mary ^CWells And Dio^Bmnne Warwick did all she ^Emcould do And Mary Wells, she p^Culled through For one more year or ^Dtwo

^GDylan Thomas looked ^Dcompletely pale and weak On a t^Amrip to New York City to ^Empromote his ^Cpoety ^GThree straight days of drinking out in Green^Dwich and Chelsea He was ^Amtaken to the hospital, ^Cturned blu^Ame and not brea^Dthing

An^Bmd Caitlin Thomas ^Emsaid When she w^Amalked into St Vincent's "Is the^Em bloody man dead ^Cyet?" ^BmAnd later that day^Em she got so drunk she was restr^Cained And her husband slipped^D away

^GRay Davies had a ^Dtracheotomy ^AmHe was at St. Thomas' Hospital in Lo^Emndon, aged th^Cirteen ^GAnd during his l^Dong recovery Nurses^Am put him in a wheelchair And they'd ^Cwheel him out ^Amonto a ba^Dlcony (on a balcony)

^BmAnd down that evening sun did ^Emsink Painting ^AmLondon and the river and that ^Emfreaked-out future^C Kink ^BmWaterloo lit up for one sick ^Emkid And, at 23^C, he recorded a song abo^Dut it