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 bastard son
Of one bad motherfuckin' line of blood
They say I'm the bastard son
Of one bad motherfuckin' 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 bastard son
Of one bad motherfuckin' line of blood
They say I'm the bastard son
Of one bad motherfuckin' line of blood

I can't catch a break
'Cause if I make one damn 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
Come 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 bastard son
Of one bad motherfuckin' line of blood
They say I'm the bastard son
Of one bad motherfuckin' line of blood
Yeah, yeah, yeah