Thanks for the feedback. What the wider world thinks about my lyrical content is not so important.

I wanted to try to write this using BIAB and post it here. Race relations and especially the exploitation of people of color can be a pretty inflammatory subject in todays world. The last thing I want to do is create hate and discontent here.

Prejudicial bias, predilection for disrespecting people is not limited to people of color. The song does center around the life and times of a fictional poor uneducated black man but it could be just as easily have been a poor uneducated white man. Lack of education, poverty, and the realities life in a principally agrarian culture weigh heavily on everyone.

Billy

“Amazing! I’ll be working with Jaco Pastorius, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum, and Buddy Rich, and you’re telling me it’s not that great of a gig?
“Well…” Saint Peter, hesitated, “God’s got this girlfriend who thinks she can sing…”