Famous Tracheotomies Chords

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[Verse 1]
[G]When I had my tra[D]cheotomy
I was [Am]blue and had stopped breathing
There was [Em]something
wrong with [C]me[G]
Doctors cut through the car[D]tilage and skin
At the bot[Am]tom of my throat
And then [C]they snaked that [Em]trach tube in
[D]

[Verse 2]
And [Bm]I was one and [Em]a half
I was [Am]my parents' only kid
And they [Em]had lost two
before [C]that[Bm]
And growing up[Em],
I always knew how close I'd [C]come
Well, that must have [D]been scary, Mom

[Verse 3]
[G]
Gary Coleman, he was [D]"Arnold" on TV
Well, I grew [Am]up watching him and
Conrad [Em]Bain and Kimberly
[C]It [G]turns out that he had[D]
a trach scar too
Where they cut [Am]into his throat
And then they [C]threaded that
tube [Em]through
[D]

[Verse 4]
But that [Bm]was much later [Em]on
In the [Am]year that he turned forty [Em]when his
fanbase was [C]all [Bm]gone
And his health was so touch-and-go
His [Em]His [C]His girlfriend proposed
But they broke up on [D]a TV show

[Verse 5]
[G]
Mary Wells, she was [D]known as
Motown's Queen
[Am]But laryngeal cancer left
her un[Em]able to [C]sing
[G]They tried radiation, mul[D]tiple surgeries
But she did[Am]n't have insurance
and lost [C]almost [Em]everything[D]

[Verse 6]
Poor thing
[Bm]But Diana Ross helped with her b[Em]ills
Aretha[Am]Franklin tried her very
best to help [Em]out Mary [C]Wells
[Bm]And Dionne Warwick did
all she could [Em]do
And Mary Wells, she [C]pulled through
For one more [D]year or two

[Verse 7]
[G]
Dylan Thomas looked com
[D]pletely pale and weak
On [Am]a trip to New York City to
promote [Em]his [C]poety
[G]Three straight days of drinking out
in [D]Greenwich and Chelsea
He was [Am]taken to the hospital,
turned [C]blue and not [Em]breathing
[D]

[Verse 8]
[D]And [Bm]Caitlin Thomas said[Em]
When she [Am]walked into St Vincent's
"Is the [Em]bloody man [C]dead [Bm]yet?"
And later that day [Em]she got so
drunk she was [C]restrained
And her husband slipped [D]away

[Verse 9]
[G]
Ray Davies [D]had [Dm]a tracheotomy[D]
He was [Am]at St. Thomas' Hospital in Lon[Em]don,
aged [C]thir[G]teen
And during [D]his long recovery
Nurses [Am]put him in a wheelc[D]hair
[Am]And they'd wheel[C] him out onto[Em]
a bal[D]cony (on a balcony)

[Verse 10]
[Bm]And down that evening sun did [Em]sink
Painting Lon[Am]don and the river and that
[Em]freaked-out future future [C]Kink
[Bm]Waterloo lit up for one sick
[Em]kid
And, at twenty-three, [C]he he recorded a song [D]about it

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