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Joe Van Gogh is a friend of mine

 He's the son of Vincent Van Gogh, you know

Joe has more friends than you do

 And Joe Van Gogh is a painter too

I've shared a room with Joe Van Gogh

And all night long he grinds his teeth

It could be genetic it could be the heat

It's pressure to paint that's my belief

This I'll tell you 'cause this I know

I'm a valuable friend to Joe Van Gogh

I'm the only painter Joe Van Gogh knows

Who wasn't first friends with Vincent Van Gogh

Joe Van Gogh is a very good painter

Some sunflowers, sure but other stuff too

But how good a painter we'll never know

'Til he gets away from Vincent Van Gogh

An umbilical cord of red Dayglo

Runs from one to the other though

Through the streets of Amsterdam they go

Joe on the shoulders of Vincent Van Gogh

Joe Van Gogh has a second floor window

With a scene of Amsterdam below

He sits at a canvas with a Marlboro

In his mind Van Gogh, Van Gogh, Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh is good to Joe

He gave his son his ear, you know

But it can't be easy being Joe Van Gogh

Trying to paint when your dad is Vincent Van Gogh

People write songs about Vincent Van Gogh

Like Starry Starry Night and other stuff too

And it don't exactly even the score, I know

But here's one song about Joe Van Gogh