Come to the door Ma, and the chain I was just through, I got caught in the rain Theres nothing I want, that you need say Just let me lay down for a 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 was my trade
Rouge, Ponchitoula, and Lafayette town Well, they paid me money 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 champion Jack Thompson, in a field 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 over him, I pounded his bloody body, right into the the bell rang and rang, and still I kept on and on and on Till I felt my glove leather, slip between his and bone
the women and the money came fast and the days I lost track The women red, the green, but the numbers were black I fought for the men in their silk suits, to lay down their I took my good share Ma, ya see I, I no regrets
Then I took the fix at the armory, with big John McDowell oh, From high in the rafters, I watched fall As they his arm my stomach twisted. and the sky it went black I my bag with their good money ma, and I never looked back
So understand, in the end Ma, man plays the game If you know me one different, then speak out his Ma, if my voice now, now you recognize just open the door, and look into your dark 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 work 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, step to the line Show me money , and speak out your crime
Now nothin I want Ma, nothin 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 can erase I move hard to the left, and I strike to the