uh huh ow ow huh uh huh keep it down town Runt of the litter ninth kid in a one room shack the only thing worth havin’ was food for the day school ain’t gonna feed us daddy’s main rule you goin’ in the cotton fields sharpen your tools daddy said cotton gonna make him or break him he look like a june bug out there Jack slapped down the sack record didn’t get paid any more but he didn’t do it for the money (uh huh ow ow huh uh huh Jack doin’ it right) one day playin’ cards at ‘ol Moe’s he drew to the last dime half past nine game was ovah ‘cause he Slapped another jack on the barrel they called him Black Jack after that uh huh Black Jack huh uh huh Truth is some lucky ones ain’t good some good ones ain’t lucky Black Jack Black Jack was lucky to be good no job he couldn’t keep runnin’ sixteen hours and trouble knee deep can’t beat him can’t cheat him lotta folks laid off (unh a whoa uh whoa no) only Black Jack gettin’ paid in sixty-four he moved to Chicago up from deep south got a job drivin’ a cab and feed little mouths one bad day one bad man caught a ride tried to rob Jack who wouldn’t let it slide Mr. Saturday night pointed right at his face nowhere to run and nothin’ to say but NO…I DON’T THINK SO! the hammer dropped NO shot the dude ran away down State Jack slapped the dash and drove away who’s gonna believe that!? (uh huh ow ow huh uh huh) Truth is some lucky ones ain’t good some good ones ain’t lucky Black Jack Black Jack was lucky to be good no job he couldn’t keep runnin’ sixteen hours and trouble knee deep can’t beat him can’t cheat him lotta folks laid off (unh a whoa uh whoa no) only Black Jack gettin’ paid no job he couldn’t keep runnin’ sixteen hours and trouble knee deep can’t beat him can’t cheat him lotta folks laid off (unh a whoa uh whoa no) only Black Jack gettin’ paid Jack lived to 93 lotta folks tried to hustle him others paid him no mind but Black Jack left a legacy a country mile wide
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