Lou Gehrig’s Disease – Dan Bern – letras

First it was Pluto, the furthest, coldest planetThey said it’s not a planet after allThen suddenly a dollar wasn’t worth a dollarAnd banks too big to fail began to fallAll of this and more, I could accept?that’s how things goBut now I’m down here begging, on my knees’Cause now they’re trying to tell usLou Gehrig didn’t dieOf Lou Gehrig’s DiseaseYou all remember Lou, they Yankee slugger whoAlong with Babe Ruth made the Bronx bombers goRuth he batted third, Gehrig batted fourthA little thing called Murderer’s RowChange history, make it new, Lindbergh sailed the ocean blueBut don’t tear down my idols pleaseDon’t say Lou Gehrig didn’t dieNever be another GehrigNever be another RuthAll the modern sluggersGot there on the juiceRipken broke the Iron Horse’s streakBut Ripken didn’t have his own disease?.Whose disease is it, whose disease was itIf you didn’t catch it, if you did not contract itJim Bob Jorgensen’s Disease?Flora Richardson’s DiseaseChan-Ho’s Disease?Muhammad Braznakar’s DiseaseWhose Disease Was It?Next they’ll be sayin Grant isn’t buriedIn Grant’s tomb?nope?guy named PettitThe White House isn’t white, Red Square isn’t redAnd the Alamo?forget itMondale, he beat Reagan, Nixon, he beat KennedyAnd Lassie?well Lassie had fleasIf Lou Gehrig didn’t dieOf Lou Gehrig’s Disease