Born in Chicago

I was born in Chicago, nineteen and forty-one

I was born in Chicago in nineteen and forty-one

Well, my father told me

"Son, you'd better get a gun."

My first friend went down

When I was seventeen years old

Oh, my first friend went down

When I was seventeen years old

Well, there's one thing I can say about that boy

He gotta go

Well, my second friend went down

When I was twenty-one years of age

Oh, my second friend went down

When I was twenty-one years of age

Well, there's one thing I can say about that boy

He gotta pray

Well, now rules are alright

If there's someone left to play the game

Well, now rules are alright

If there's someone left to play the game

All my friends are going

And everything just don't seem the same

Things just don't seem the same, baby