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I lay my head on the railroad track, waitin' on the Double E. But the train don't run by here no more, poor, poor, pitiful me.

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Warren Zevon
Age: 56 †
Born: 1947
Born: January 24
Died: 2003
Died: September 7
Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
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Chicago
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Sandy Zevon
Stephen Lyme
Warren William Zevon
Stumpy Zevon
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