Once a little gangsta called himself the Brother Brown
All was violent fun and transgression
These dirty deeds just headed the mob top of the capital
Big Daddy's not known by yer mercy
It's not about business, it's not about money
Just one more criminal dancing
Attempt to defy the dealer of life
Played cards with the devil at moonlight

Red roses expose, yeah
Let there be fly of the bullets

Come on back, you monkey
Cover you funky
You rule the downtown
You rule the downtown

Jimmy The Cobra run to meeting Brother Brown
Brought him a proposal from the Daddy
Give in the old submission and clean up the town
Lead the East Riverside out of taxes
It's not for vengeance, it's not for the honor
The deal just can't be accomplished
He came to dethrone the king of the Bronx
Don't take of a nigger the conquest

Red roses expose, yeah
Let there be fly of the bullets

Come on back, you monkey
Cover you funky
You rule the downtown
You rule the downtown

"God gave the guns for the Hobo and said
Let there be fly of the bullets"
Brother Brown, '74