John Lennon

      You're a young lad playing your guitar on the back of a van, then you're tearing your throat out trying to sing. You find success, make a few records, a couple of movies and show your bare bottom on the front page of every newspaper in the world. Soon it's time to move on, say goodbye to the others, then suddenly it's your seventieth birthday and you're not around to celebrate. At least you have enriched mankind with your brief presence!

Tony Curtis

Tony Curtis.

Oh Tony oh tony oh tony don't go,

oh tony oh tony oh tony oh no,

best remembered as a transgendered jazz musician in love with Marilyn Monroe.

Oh tony oh tony it's a shame and a pity,

you had to strangle all those women in Boston City.

You racist you bigot you broke out of jail and went on the run,

then spent the movie cuffed to Poitier, you Defiant One.

You were good in Spartacus and Kirk's death was a loss,

and if you hadn't claimed to be Spartacus you wouldn't have ended up on a cross.

With Kirk in the Vikings that was another,

though to get Janet Leigh into bed you had to kill your own brother.

Oh tony oh tony you made 100 movies and walked the golden mile,

you'll be remembered as a good actor and not just for a hairstyle.

Oh tony oh tony if you must go,

At least you were first to Monte Carlo.