r.l. burnside - r.l. 's story lyrics
i had two uncles, two brothers, and my father did get k!lled in chicago
that’s why i don’t like living there, it’s too rough a place
people, going up down the street shooting, k!lling peoples, which it done it everywhere but they been doing it there a long time you know, and that’s a sad thing
well uhh, my brother, he was a doctor, i think he been, i’m not for sure but i think he been selling, some dope to him and he, i reckon quit, and they k!lled him
and my uncle, one of them they k!lled him, another guy k!lled him about his wife. he, with his wife, and about two years after, he k!lled him. he he, stayed with his lived with his wife
and my other uncle, i don’t know the what reason he got k!lled, but i know he, got k!lled and my dad they k!lled him and robbed him, he, he got his, check you know his, and uhh, somebody, ganged up on him and stabbed him oh lord dang, twenty-five thirty times. and n0body never went to to jail for it cuz they never found out who it was
ahh, then i was, that was in uhh, uhh, fifties, yeah cuz i lived there in the forties, and my uhh, soon as i left there, ’bout uhh, eleven months after i left there, my father got k!lled, then about a week later, my both of my brothers got k!lled the same day. and then uhh, one of my uncles got k!lled about three months later, and it was about, six or eight months ‘fore my other uncle got k!lled; but they all got k!lled in a year’s time…
…yeah, i’m glad i i made it out man
yeah both of my brothers got k!lled the same day
but uhh, my uncle my daddy got k!lled, when he drawed some money back you know his, time, and somebody, he went out and get him a drink i imagine, the whiskey store not too far from his house. about, a block and a half and somebody k!lled him umm, between there and there before he got there, he was just at the, other side of the next house from where he lived but uhh and he k!lled him there, and took his money
and one of my uncles they, the guy, k!lled him about his wife he caught him there with his wife, and he k!lled him. and i don’t know what happened to my other uncle but he got k!lled you know i don’t know just what happened
naw, no no done n0body ever went to jail, cuz they ain’t, don’t know who did nothing
well uhh, yeah, i share-cropped, down at senatobia, and then uhh, i moved down to, tunica, i stayed down there a, couple years at uhh, hollywood, and uhh, i came from there back to coldwater, oounce and stayed there, two years and went back to memphis, we stayed, two or three years and we came back, stayed here a year and went back to memphis and stayed a couple years, then we come back and we ain’t been back since
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