Well, it was said 
On the day of my birth
The ghost of a dead man
Walked the earth
And my mama don't love me none
She hates everything my daddy done
He got killed on a steel mill line
Just like his daddy in a 
Black coal mine

They say I'm the [bad word] son
Of one bad [bad word] #39; line of blood
They say I'm the [bad word] son
Of one bad [bad word] #39; line of blood

I got an uncle in a Jackson cell
Served 13 years 
But he's still got 12
That's 25, baby
He killed his brother with a swingin' spade
Now he's six feet deep in a
Early grave
He got killed before his time
Just like his
Just like his daddy died 

They say I'm the [bad word] son
Of one bad [bad word] #39; line of blood
They say I'm the [bad word] son
Of one bad [bad word] #39; line of blood

I can't catch a break
'Cause if I make one [bad word] mistake
They're gonna hang me, hey, hey, hey
Half Detroit would sell their soul
To see me swingin' from a gallows pole
For somethin'
Somethin' my daddy done [bad word] on

Yo, it was said
On the day of my birth
That the ghost of a dead man
Walked the earth
All right
And my mama don't love me none
Because she knows
I'm my daddy's son

He got killed on a steel mill line
Just like his daddy
Just like his daddy died

They say I'm the [bad word] son
Of one bad [bad word] #39; line of blood
They say I'm the [bad word] son
Of one bad [bad word] #39; line of blood
Yeah, yeah, yeah