[00:01.12]Tom Jones - The Hitter
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[00:09.28]Come to the door Ma, and unlock the chain
[00:17.63]I was just passin’ through and got caught in the rain
[00:26.40]There’s nothing I want, nothin’ that you need say
[00:34.46]Just let me lie down for a while and I’ll be on my way iexcl;
[00:43.41]I was no more than a kid when you put me on the Southern Queen
[00:52.17]With the police on my back I fled to New Orleans
[01:01.63]I fought in the dockyards and with the money I made
[01:09.44]I knew the fight was my home and blood was my trade
[01:18.28]Baton Rouge, Poncitoula, and Lafayette town
[01:25.77]Well they paid me their money Ma I knocked the men down
[01:35.79]I did what I did well it come easily
[01:44.92]Restraint and mercy Ma were always strangers to me
[01:52.84]I fought champion Jack Thompson in a field full of mud
[02:00.68]Rain poured through the tent to the canvas and mixed with our blood
[02:10.40]In the twelfth I slipped my tongue over my broken jaw
[02:17.67]I stood over him and pounded his bloody body into the floor
[02:27.75]Well the bell rang and rang and still I kept on
[02:37.03]‘Till I felt my glove leather slip ‘tween his skin and bone
[02:45.06]Then the women and the money came fast and the days I lost track
[02:53.62]The women red, the money green, but the numbers were black
[03:02.64]I fought for the men in their silk suits to lay down their bets
[03:11.21]I took my good share Ma, I have no regrets
[03:19.00]Then I took the fix at the state armory with big John McDowell
[03:28.62]From high in the rafters I watched myself fall
[03:36.60]As he raised his arm my stomach twisted and the sky it went black
[03:45.50]I stuffed my bag with their good money and I never looked back
[03:54.27]Understand, in the end Ma every man plays the game
[04:03.12]If you know me one different then speak out his name
[04:11.59]Ma if my voice now you don’t recognize
[04:20.37]Then just open the door and look into your dark eyes
[04:29.34]I ask of you nothin’, not a kiss not a smile,
[04:37.92]Just open the door and let me lie down for a while
[04:46.43]Now the gray rain’s fallin’ and my ring fightin’s done
[04:54.85]So in the work fields and alleys I take all who’ll come
[05:03.63]If you’re a better man than me then just step to the line
[05:09.80]Now there’s nothin’ I want Ma nothin’ that you need say
[05:29.34]Just let me lie down for a while and I’ll be on my way
[05:38.73]Tonight in the shipyard a man draws a circle in the dirt
[05:47.35]I move to the center and I take off my shirt
[05:55.86]I study him for the cuts, the scars, the pain,
[06:00.97]Man, nor the time can erase
[06:04.62]I move hard to the left and I strike to the face
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