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Please Don’t Cry for Me
Brian Ritchie

Please don’t cry for me when I die
I’ve had too much fun for you to cry
Just fill your glass, smoke your pipe
Have a blast that lasts all night
Please don’t cry for me when I die

I would like to be stuffed
For those who haven’t had enough
With my cowboy hat and two glass eyes
Dress out like a hunter’s prize
I would like to be stuffed

My friends should take me home
Then they’d never have to be alone
I’d be smilin’ all the day
Scare the burglars away
My friends should take me home

I want a street named after me
By the mayor of Milwaukee
Call it Brian Ritchie Street
It has a ring that’s oh so sweet
I want a street named after me

Drop my guitars to the ground
From the tallest building in town
Hook them up to Marshall stacks
Record it and press it on wax
Drop my guitars to the ground

REPEAT VERSE 1

Send my intestines to the Pope
With some condoms and a bag of dope
I would really like to see ‘em
In the Vatican Museum
Send my intestines to the Pope

Build a statue of me in the park
I want one that glows in the dark
Make them sculpt it to perfection
So I have a huge erection
Build a statue of me in the park

REPEAT VERSE 1

©1990 Chameleon Music Group, Inc.



Brian Ritchie is the bassist for the Violent Femmes, and this is from his solo album, I See A Noise (which I don't really recommend except to Femmes completists).