R.L.'S Story

I had two uncles, two brothers, and my father killed in Chicago
That's why I don't like living there
It's too rough a place
People going up and down the streets shooting, killing people
Which they're doing it everywhere, but they've
Been doing it there a long time, you know
And that's a sad thing
Well, my brother, he was a doctor
I think he'd been, I'm not for sure, but I
Think he'd been selling some dope to them
And he quit, and they killed him
And my uncles, one of them, they killed
Him, another guy killed him by his wife
And he's with his wife, and about two years after, he killed him
He stayed with, lived with his wife
And my other uncle, I don't know what reason he got killed
But I know he got killed
And my dad, they killed him and robbed him
He got his check, you know, and somebody ganged
Up on him and stabbed him, oh, man, 25, 30 times
And nobody never went to jail for it
Because they never found out who it was
Then I was, that was in the '50s
Yeah, because I lived there in the '40s
And as soon as I left there, about 11 months after I left there
My father got killed, then about a week later
Both of my brothers got killed the same day
And then one of my uncles got killed about three months later
And it was about six or eight months before my other uncle got killed
But they all got killed in a year's time
Yeah, I'm glad I made it out, man
Yeah, both of my brothers got killed the same day
But my uncles, my daddy got killed when
He drawed some money back, you know
It was time, and somebody, he went out to get him a drink, I imagine
The whiskey store not too far from his house, about a block and a half
And somebody killed him between there and there, before he got there
He was just at the other side of the next house from where he lived
But somebody killed him there and took his money
And one of my uncles, the guy killed him by his wife
He caught him there with his wife, and he killed him
And I don't know what happened to my
Other uncle, but he got killed, you know
I don't know just what happened
No, nobody went to jail because they don't know who did nothing
Well, yeah, I sharecropped down at Senatobia
And then I moved down to Tunica
I stayed down there a couple years at Hollywood
And I came from there back to Coldwater
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 of years
And then we come back, and we ain't been back since