Crooks and manipulators have stolen your reputation.
Stolen your compositions and in crimes of blackmail placed their names on your songs.

They got rich.
You got fame and even became well known.
Except you're broke.
Not soaking in the wealth.
And this happened in the forties and the fifties by labels controlled by powerful mobsters.

Mind games of offering you a flat fee.
A car or two which to many males was an attraction tool.
Executives, advising you on how great an artist you are?

Except you're broke.
Others millionaires off your songs.
Sure you got fame and might be well known.
They got copyrights to your material and when you complain or protest it.

Many states, you're delirious.
When all you were doing?
Was being strictly serious?

The strange thing about all this mess?
Is it the facts many whites and Jews and blacks more have faced this?