Come to the Ma, and unlock the chain I was passin through, I got caught in the rain Theres I want, nothin that you need say let me lay down 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 police on my back, I all the way down to New Orleans I in the dockyards, and with the money I made I knew the fight was my home, and blood was my
Baton Rouge, Ponchitoula, and town Well, they me their money Ma, and I knocked the men down I did what I did, well it came Restraint and mercy Ma were strangers to me
I champion Jack Thompson, in a field full of mud The rain poured through the canvas tent,and with our blood In the twelfth I slipped my tongue, over my jaw and I stood over him, I pounded his body, into the floor Well the bell rang and rang, and I kept on and on and on Till I felt my leather, slip between his skin and bone
Then the women and the money fast and the days I lost track The women red, the money green, but the numbers were I fought for the men in their silk suits, to lay their bets I took my good share Ma, ya see I, I have no
Then I took the fix at the state armory, big John McDowell oh, From in the rafters, I watched myself fall As they his arm my stomach twisted. and the sky it went black I stuffed my bag with their good money ma, and I never looked
So understand, in the end Ma, every man the game If you know me one different, then speak out his Ma, if my voice now, now you dont Then just open the door, and look into your eyes I ask of you nothin, not a kiss, not a smile, Just open the and let me lay down for a while
Now the gray rain is fallin, my fightins done So in the fields and alleys,ya see I, I take all who come If youre a better man me, then come on, and step up to the line, right to the line Show me your money , and speak out crime
Now theres nothin I want Ma, nothin that you 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 can erase I move to the left, and I strike to the face