Come to the Ma, and unlock the chain I was passin through, I got caught in the rain Theres nothing I want, nothin 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 Queen With the police on my back, I fled all the way down to New I fought in the dockyards, and with the money I I the fight was my home, and blood was my trade
Baton Rouge, Ponchitoula, and town Well, they paid me their Ma, and I knocked the men down I did I did, well it came easily Restraint and Ma were always strangers to me
I fought Jack Thompson, in a field full of mud The rain poured through the canvas tent,and with our blood In the twelfth I my tongue, over my broken jaw and I stood over him, I pounded his body, into the floor Well the rang and rang, and still I kept 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 lost The red, the money green, but the numbers were black I fought for the men in silk suits, to lay down their bets I took my good share Ma, ya see I, I no regrets
I took the fix at the state armory, with big John McDowell oh, high 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, 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, Just open the door and let me lay down for a
Now the gray rain is fallin, my ring fightins So in the fields and alleys,ya see I, I take all who come If youre a better man than me, then on, and step up to the line, step right to the Show me your money , and speak out your
Now theres nothin I want Ma, that you need say Just let me lay down for a and Ill be on my way
in a shipyard, a man draws a circle in the dirt I move to the center, and I take off my I him for the cuts, the scars, the pain, Man no can erase I move to the left, and I strike to the face