Is wondering if Bo diddley ever got paid...

Jun 02, 2008 22:57

Bad news.  Amazing musical artist Bo Diddley died today of heart failure.
Somehow it makes me more sad than usual...
-sigh-

"I walk 47 miles of barbed wire,
I use a cobra-snake for a necktie,
I got a brand new house on the roadside,
Made from rattlesnake hide,
I got a brand new chimney made on top,
Made out of a human skull,
Now come on take a walk with me, arlene,
And tell me, who do you love?

Tombstone hand and a graveyard mine,
Just 22 and I dont mind dying.

I rode around the town, use a rattlesnake whip,
Take it easy arlene, dont give me no lip,

Night was dark, but the sky was blue,
Down the alley, the ice-wagon flew,
Heard a bump, and somebody screamed,
You should have heard just what I seen.

Arlene took me by my hand,
And she said ooowee bo, you know I understand.

Who do you love? "
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