Come to the door Ma, and the chain I was just passin through, I got caught in the nothing I want, nothin that you need say Just let me lay for a while and Ill be on my way
I was no more than a kid, when you put me on. the Southern With the police on my back, I fled all the way down to New I in the dockyards, and with the money I made I knew the fight was my home, and was my trade
Rouge, Ponchitoula, and Lafayette town Well, they paid me money Ma, and I knocked the men down I did what I did, it came easily and mercy Ma were always strangers to me
I fought champion Jack Thompson, in a full of mud The rain through the canvas tent,and mixed with our blood In the I slipped my tongue, over my broken jaw and I stood over him, I his bloody body, right into the Well the rang and rang, and still I kept on and on and on Till I felt my glove leather, slip between his skin and
Then the women and the money came fast and the days I track The women red, the money green, but the numbers black I fought for the men in their silk suits, to lay down bets I took my good share Ma, ya see I, I have no
Then I the fix at the state armory, with big John McDowell oh, high in the rafters, I watched myself fall As they raised his arm my stomach twisted. and the sky it black I stuffed my bag with their money ma, and I never looked back
So understand, in the end Ma, every man the game If you me one different, then speak out his name Ma, if my voice now, now you recognize Then just the door, and look into your dark eyes I ask of you nothin, not a kiss, not a smile, Just open the door and let me lay for a while
Now the gray rain is fallin, my ring done So in the fields and alleys,ya see I, I take all who come If youre a man than me, then come on, and step up to the line, step right to the Show me money , and speak out your crime
Now theres nothin I want Ma, nothin you need say let me lay down for a while and Ill be on my way
Tonight in a shipyard, a man draws a in the dirt I move to the center, and I off my shirt I him for the cuts, the scars, the pain, Man no can erase I move hard to the left, and I strike to the