{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":2450493,"song":"Famous Tracheotomies","artist":"Okkervil River","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11501492-famous-tracheotomies-chords-by-okkervil-river/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2450493?type=chord","rating":4.85365,"votes":8,"content":"[Verse 1]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhen I had my tracheotomy[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI was blue and had stopped breathing[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]Em[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThere was something wrong with me[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nDoctors cut through the cartilage and skin[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAt the bottom of my throat[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]Am[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd then they snaked that trach tube in[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus 1]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Bm[/ch]              [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd I was one and a half[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI was my parents only kid[/tab]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]Em[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd they had lost two before that[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Bm[/ch]            [ch]Em[/ch]                           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd growing up, I always knew how close I'd come[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWell, that must have been scary, Mom[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nGary Coleman, he was \"Arnold\" on TV[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Am[/ch]                     [ch]Em[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWell, I grew up watching him and Conrad Bain and Kimberly[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nIt turns out that he had a trach scar too[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWhere they cut into his throat[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]Am[/ch]       [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd then they threaded that tube through[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus 2]\r\n[tab]             [ch]Bm[/ch]          [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nBut that was much later on[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Am[/ch]                                [ch]Em[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nIn the year that he turned forty when his fanbase was all gone[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Bm[/ch]                    [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd his health was so touch-and-go[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nHis girlfriend proposed[/tab]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBut they broke up on a TV show[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nMary Wells, she was known as Motown's Queen[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Am[/ch]                     [ch]Em[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut laryngeal cancer left her unable to sing[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThey tried radiation, multiple surgeries[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Am[/ch]                                  [ch]C[/ch]   [ch]Am[/ch]    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBut she didn't have insurance and lost almost everything[/tab]\r\n\r\nPoor thing\r\n\r\n[Chorus 3]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Bm[/ch]                        [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nBut Diana Ross helped with her bills[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Am[/ch]                              [ch]Em[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAretha Franklin tried her very best to help out Mary Wells[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Bm[/ch]                      [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd Dionne Warwick did all she could do[/tab]\r\n[tab]                     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd Mary Wells, she pulled through[/tab]\r\n[tab]                     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nFor one more year or two[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]D[/ch]\r\nDylan Thomas looked completely pale and weak[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Am[/ch]                      [ch]Em[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nOn a trip to New York City to promote his poety[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThree straight days of drinking out in Greenwich and Chelsea[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Am[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]Am[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nHe was taken to the hospital, turned blue and not breathing[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus 4]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Bm[/ch]               [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd Caitlin Thomas said[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWhen she walked into St Vincent's[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Em[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\n\"Is the bloody man dead yet?\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch]                [ch]Em[/ch]                             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd later that day she got so drunk she was restrained[/tab]\r\n[tab]                       [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd her husband slipped away[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 5]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nRay Davies had a tracheotomy[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                                  [ch]Em[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nHe was at St. Thomas' Hospital in London, aged thirteen[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd during his long recovery[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nNurses put him in a wheelchair[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]Am[/ch]       [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd they'd wheel him out onto a balcony (on a balcony)[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus 5]\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch]                            [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd down that evening sun did sink[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Am[/ch]                            [ch]Em[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]\r\nPainting London and the river and that freaked-out future Kink[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch]                           [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nWaterloo lit up for one sick kid[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]                       [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd, at 23, he recorded a song about it[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Outro}\r\n[ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]","plain_text":"[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\nPoor thing\n\n[Chorus 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 5]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus 5]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Outro}\nG D Am C","chords":["G","D","Am","Em","C","Bm"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"Bm":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,3,4,2,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,3,2]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}