Lyrics Daniel Johnston – Casper

He was smiling through his own personal hell
Dropped his last dime in a wishing well
But he was hoping to close and then he fell
Now he’s Casper the Friendly Ghost

He was always polite to the people who’d tell him
That he was nothing but a lazy bum, but
Goodbye to them he had to go
Now he’s Casper the Friendly Ghost

Nobody treated him nice while he was alive
You can’t buy no respect like the librarian said, but
Everybody respects the dead
They love a friendly ghost

And now they say we’ll never forget what he learned
As we were mean to him but he never burned us
Just singing, «love lives forever»
Thank you, Casper the Friendly Ghost
Thank you, Casper the Friendly Ghost

I didn’t want to die