Well I was just passin through and got caught in the rain.
There s nothing that I wantnothin that you need say.
Just let me lie down a while and I ll be on my way.
I was no more than a kid when you put me on the Southern Queen.
With the police on my back I fled to New Orleans.
Well I fought in the dockyards for the the money that I made.
And the fight was my home and any blood was my trade.
Baton RougePonchatoulaand Lafayette town.
They payed me the moonmato knock the man down.
Well I did what I didyeah it come easily.
For as know marestraint and mercy were always strangers to me.
I fought champion Jack Thompson in a field full of mud.
Rain poured through the tent canvas and mixed with our blood.
In the twelfthslipped my tounge over my broken jaw.
And I pounded his body into the floor.
Well the bell rang and rang and still I kept on.
Til I felt my glove leather slip tween his skin and bone.
And the women and the money came fast and the days I lost track.
The women redthe money greenbut the numbers were black.
I fought for the men in their silk suits to lay down their bets.
Well I took my good sharemaI have no regrets.
I took the fixed staid hombre with Big Diamond Don.
(???) Well from high in the rafters I watched myself fall.
He raised his armsstomach twistedand the sky it went black.
(???) I stuffed my bag with their good moneymaand never looked back.
Understand me and myevery man plays the game.
Well if you know anyone different then speak out his name.
My lifemy facenow you don t recognize.
Well just open the door and look into your dark eyes.
I ask of you nothin not a kiss not a smile.
Just open the door and let me lie down for a while.
Now the gray rain is fallin and my ring fightin s done.
So in the work fields and alleysI take them who ll come.
If you re a better man than me then just step to the line.
Show me your money and speak out your crime.
There s nothin I wantmanuthin that you need say.
Just let me lie for a while and I ll be on my way.
Well tonight in Stockyarda man draws a circle in the dirt.
I move to the center and take off my shirt.
I study him for the cutsthe scarsthe painno time can erase.
I move hard to the left and I strike to the face.
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