It was something I enjoyed doing and decided to give it a couple years, though I'm not making a lot of money now either!

I say, as a singer grows older, his conception grows a little deeper, because he lives life and he understands what he is trying to say a little more. And I think this gives. If a singer tries to find out what's happening in life, it gives him a better insight on telling the story of the song he is trying to sing.

Another fella told me, he had a sister who looked just fine. Instead of being my deliverance, she had a strange resemblance to a cat name of Frankenstein.

Another Saturday night and I ain't got nobody.

I was born by the river, in a little tent, and just like the river I've been running ever since.

You know, I'll always be your slave 'til I'm buried, buried in my grave.

Ooh, ah, ooh, ah, that's the sound of the men working on the chain gang.