Bo Diddley was a private eye Hand was fast and his IQ high DA said Double O, you won't last Slow down boy, you living too fast Well, Double O had a Cadillac Machine guns and a bullet-proof back Engine taken from a 707 Sounds like a sure way to get into heaven In his pocket, 5 pounds of lead To keep Bo Diddley from getting dead Another thing helped Bo keeping alive Was a snub-nosed, Smith and Wesson, Colt 45 Yeah Well, Bo drank gallons of rye and bourbon Martini's dry and you better serve them Martini so dry, the shaker burst Bo keeled on his side and died of thirst