With apologies to Jim Carroll -- with all the deaths attributed to you-know what . . . it occurred to me:
Teddy sniffing COVID, he was 12 years old
Died from the virus on East Two-nine
Cathy was 11 when her test came back
Despite 26 masks & rubber glove time
Bobby got the dirty virus, 14 years old
He was sneezing slime when he died
He was a stat of mine
[Chorus]
Those statistics who died, died
Those statistics who died, died
Those statistics who died, died
Those statistics who died, died
They were all statistics: & they died
G-berg and Georgie let their virus go rotten
So they died of COVID19 in upper Manhattan
Sly’s in a Nursing Home, COVID in the head
Bobby OD'd on COVID on the night that he was wed
They were two more stats of mine
Two more stats that died,
Mary got COVID from a hotel room
Bobby virused out in a cell in the tombs
Judy touched a handle on a subway train
Eddie got the virus from some guy in Spain
And Eddie, he distanced more than all the others
And I salute you brother
