How the Presidents Died Lyrics

George Washington, 'twas epiglottitis from which he died

A swelling closed his airway, couldn't breathe, although, he tried

John Adams, of heart failure, he was 90 when death came

Tom Jefferson, likely that prostate cancer was to blame

James Madison, it was his heart that stopped at 85

James Monroe, tuberculosis, he could not survive

John Quincy Adams, from a stroke, Jackson, TB and his heart

Van Buren's heart stopped, though severe asthma played a large part

William Henry Harrison, typhoid fever is why

John Tyler's diagnosis was a stroke that made him die

James Polk's death came at 53, cholera was the cause

Zachary Taylor, gastroenteritis was what it was

Millard Fillmore had a stroke, never recovering

Franklin Pierce, cirrhosis of the liver was the thing

James Buchanan, respiratory failure was the key

Abe Lincoln, by an assassin's gunshot, R.I.P

It was a stroke that put Andrew Johnson into the ground

Ulysses Grant, 'twas throat cancer, no other reason found

Rutherford B. Hayes' suffered from heart disease, then done

James Garfield, by a bullet from an assassin's gun

Chester Arthur had a stroke which put him in his grave

Grover Cleveland, advanced heart disease, could not be saved

Ben Harrison fell to pneumonia in his bedroom

William McKinley, shot, but the infection spelled his doom

Teddy Roosevelt died from a blood clot in his lung

William Taft, from heart disease, the angels, he's among

Woodrow Wilson, was a severe stroke which took his life

Warren Harding, heart attack while listening to his wife

Calvin Coolidge, fatal heart attack was what he had

Massive internal bleeding's what took Hoover, very sad

FDR's life ended by a stroke at 63

Harry Truman's massive organ failure set him free

The end of Eisenhower, a heart attack was the cause

John Kennedy, assassinated, Dallas, where he was

Lyndon Johnson, done in by a heart attack, I hear

Richard Nixon, by a stroke his 81st year

Gerald Ford suffered a massive stroke, didn't you know

Ronald Reagan, pneumonia was the final blow

The illness that took George H Bush was Parkinson's disease

This is how the presidents died throughout our history