[00:02.95]Come to the door ma and unlock the chain
[00:08.31]
[00:09.75]Well I was just passin through and got caught in the rain
[00:16.25]
[00:18.94]Theres nothing that I want, nothin that you need say
[00:23.38]
[00:25.88]Just let me lie down a while and I'll be on my way
[00:30.88]
[00:33.06]I was no more than a kid when you put me on the southern queen
[00:38.75]
[00:40.75]With the police on my back I fled to new orleans
[00:44.87]
[00:48.19]Well I fought in the dockyards for the the money that I made
[00:52.50]
[00:55.00]And the fight was my home and any blood was my trade
[00:59.63]
[01:02.57]Baton rouge, and lafayette town
[01:04.37]
[01:05.31]They payed me the moon, ma, to knock the man down
[01:14.09]
[01:16.35]Well I did what I did, yeah it come easily
[01:21.66]
[01:24.84]For as know ma, restraint and mercy were always strangers to me
[01:28.85]
[01:31.03]I fought champion jack thompson in a field full of mud
[01:48.54]
[01:50.85]Rain poured through the tent canvas and mixed with our blood
[01:55.79]
[01:59.10]In the twelfth, slipped my tounge over my broken jaw
[02:03.41]
[02:04.91]And I pounded his body into the floor
[02:10.22]
[02:13.85]Well the bell rang and rang and stI'll I kept on
[02:18.29]
[02:20.29]Til I felt my glove leather slip tween his skin and bone
[02:25.54]
[02:28.16]And the women and the money came fast and the days I lost track
[02:32.85]
[02:33.92]The women red, the money green, but the numbers were black
[02:39.72]
[02:41.98]I fought for the men in their silk suits to lay down their bets
[02:47.35]
[02:48.35]Well I took my good share, ma, I have no regrets
[02:54.60]
[02:57.17]I took the fixed staid hombre with big diamond don
[03:01.48]
[03:03.55]Well from high in the rafters I watched myself fall
[03:09.05]
[03:11.73]He raised his arms, stomach twisted, and the sky it went black
[03:16.73]
[03:18.92]I stuffed my bag with their good money, ma, and never looked back
[03:23.05]Understand me and my, every man plays the game
[03:31.61]
[03:34.23]Well if you know anyone different then speak out his name
[03:38.24]
[03:41.42]My life, my face, now you don't recognize
[03:45.61]
[03:47.61]Well just open the door and look into your dark eyes
[03:51.68]
[03:53.80]I ask of you nothin, not a kiss not a smile
[03:59.36]
[04:01.42]Just open the door and let me lie down for a while
[04:05.49]
[04:09.80]Now the gray rain is fallin and my ring fightins done
[04:13.70]
[04:14.70]So in the work fields and alleys, I take them wholl come
[04:20.76]
[04:22.32]If you're a better man than me then just step to the line
[04:28.32]
[04:31.70]Show me your money and speak out your crime
[04:35.32]
[04:36.57]Theres nothin I want, ma, nuthin that you need say
[04:43.01]
[04:44.45]Just let me lie for a while and I'll be on my way
[04:50.39]
[04:52.88]Well tonight in stockyard, a man draws a circle in the dirt
[04:58.14]
[04:59.63]I move to the center and take off my shirt
[05:05.01]
[05:07.07]I study him for the cuts, the scars, the pain, no time can erase
[05:10.89]I move hard to the left and I strike to the face