Let's hear it for the dead

Let's  hear it for the dead.
What was it that you said?
I said 'Let's  hear it for the dead'.

My granny,  that friend of mine,
My mother and my dad.
Gurdjieff, Neitzche, Wittgenstein,
Let's  not forget the bad:
Hitler, Stalin, Ghengis Khan
Let's  hear it for the dead.