Lyrics:

I was born in Chicago in nineteen and forty-one (2x)
Well, my father told me, 'Son, you had better get a gun'

Well, my first friend went down when I was seventeen years old (2x)
Well, there's one thing I could say about that boy, 'You gotta go'

Well, my second friend went down when I was twenty one years, baby (2x)
Well, there's one thing I could say about that boy, 'You got it babe'

Well, my blues are alright if there's someone left to play the game (2x)
Well my rules are alright if there's someone left to play the game.
Oh, they just don't seem the same, baby