A self-explanatory tune about someone who robs a store and harms the store's owner. He's doing his time on a southern chain gang (which still exist in some states) just waiting to go back home to his honey. There's only one line in the song that offends me, but Nina has sung many tunes about black history as she knows it..."Crime of being hungry and poor. I left the grocery store many bleeding/breathing." The "crime" was not only of theft (which might be excusable), but it is also of physically harming another (which is not excusable).
A self-explanatory tune about someone who robs a store and harms the store's owner. He's doing his time on a southern chain gang (which still exist in some states) just waiting to go back home to his honey. There's only one line in the song that offends me, but Nina has sung many tunes about black history as she knows it..."Crime of being hungry and poor. I left the grocery store many bleeding/breathing." The "crime" was not only of theft (which might be excusable), but it is also of physically harming another (which is not excusable).