buzzsawmonkey 4/19/2020 5:09:10 PM

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Teddy rode the subway about two months back

Didn't wash his hands and then he touched his eyes

Cathy went out walking and didn't wear a mask

Wouldn't listen when I told her she should sanitize

Bobby wouldn't social-distance at six feet

They put him in a freezer truck when he died

He was a friend of mine

Those were people who died, died

Those were people who died, died

Those were people who died, died

Those were people who died, died

They were all my friends, and they died

---the Jim Carroll Band, "People Who Died," updated for coronavirus

buzzsawmonkey 4/19/2020 6:46:18 PM

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lucius septimius 4/19/2020 6:51:06 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 2:

Somewhere there is a video of that song playing in the background at my wedding and me talking to my father and father-in-law.  Within nine months both were dead.

buzzsawmonkey 4/19/2020 7:04:43 PM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 3:

Doesn't strike me as wedding music, exactly.  But then, I've heard the Village People's "YMCA" played at bar mitzvahs, and that doesn't strike me as appropriate, either.

lucius septimius 4/19/2020 7:39:29 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 4:

The reception was at the house -- it was just in the playlist.