Blood Brothers

Growing up on the streets of Birmingham

Where your home was pouring and your life was damned

I was a hungry black boy living with the world on my back

Billie was a white man's son living in a one room shack

And split those days in the Alabama heat

We shared what we had but we never have enough to eat

Mamma said it didn't look right, black just don't mix with white

But Billy was my friend and we swore one rainy night

To be blood brother

Lord, I loved him like no other

We were blood brother right to the end

To the end, well, well, well

Turned eighteen and we had no place to go

'Cause how long can you watch carnival

Billy said he got the money, put us on the first Greyhound bus

New York City lights gonna be greetin' us

Oh, the uptown life can cost you poverty

We're too amused but we suffered in dignity

Billy couldn't take nine to five, his soul can't stay alive

He said to me one day, we ain't gonna beat the crime

You're my blood brother

And I loved him like no other

We were blood brother right till the end

Well, well, well, yeah

So I watched him change as the days went by

And the money rolled in, we were livin' high

He didn't have to tell me he was breakin' the law

I knew it was him, the men was lookin' for

And the story goes that he caught a knife

And he pushed his luck and it cost his life

I sat down and I cried on that rainy night

When I heard heard it on the news

One [Incomprehensible] had died

We were blood brother

And I loved him like no other

He was my blood brother

And I loved him like no other

They were blood brother

And he loved him like no other

They were blood brother

And he loved him like no other