I’m sorry that I haven’t heard of this before. Cranford Nix was a musician from Detroit. He passed away in March 2002. You can read the lyrics here.
This song was covered a few times. Here’s a cover by Richie Neckbones. I like this one too!
There was a hard-rock song by the same name that came out in the late 90’s by a band called Gauntlet. I emailed them to get the song back then and they sent it to me on a dubbed cassette, which I still have somewhere. I don’t think that band exists anymore, and I can’t find the song on YouTube or anything. It was catchy, although it only had one verse repeated twice. Does anyone else remember this?
Born to be Jetthead 
Too bad he’s gone. Good singer and writer.
I hadn’t heard that, either. Very enjoyable. I never knew him, but now I miss him. ♥
I haven’t heard the Gauntlet version, either, as far as I can remember. If you ever come across it… ☺