Doc Holliday Bites the Dust

Doc Holliday Bites the Dust By Elton Camp Doc Holliday’s depicted as a vicious killer But his actual life was much less of a thriller Not in the West, but in Georgia he was born By a classical education his life did adorn Among the areas where knowledge he did seek Were grammar, math, history, Latin and Greek Highly intelligent and certainly nobody’s fool At just age twenty, he finished dental school In Atlanta he then began to practice dentistry But found, of his mother’s TB, he wasn’t free On medical advice Holliday moved to the west As its climate made his chances of living best But at his dental profession Doc couldn’t stay Since his constant cough drove patients away It then became at gambling he earned living An undeserved name as a gunman also giving As far as from the historical record we can see The number of men he shot was actually three At age thirty-six, Doc Holliday died in bed Living at a tuberculosis sanitarium, it is said