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