Tonalité : G major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Come to the door Ma, and unlock the chain
I was just passing through and got
C
caught in the rain
There's nothing I want,
G
nothing that you need say
Just let me lie down for a while
and I'll be on my way
Verse 2
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I was no more than a kid when you put
me on the Southern Queen
With the police on my back
C
I fled to New Orleans
I fought in the dockyards and with
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the money I made
I knew the fight was my home
and blood was my trade
Verse 3
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Baton Rouge,
Poncitoula, and Lafayette town
Well they paid me their money Ma
C
I knocked the men down
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I did what I did well it come easily
Restraint and mercy Ma were
always strangers to me
Verse 4
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I fought champion Jack Thompson
in a field full of mud
Rain poured through the tent to the canvas
C
and mixed with our blood
In the twelfth I slipped my tongue
Am
G
over my broken jaw
I stood over him and pounded his
bloody body into the floor
Well the bell rang and rang
C
and still I kept on
Till I felt my glove leather slip
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'tween his skin and bone
Verse 5
G
Then the women and the money came
fast and the days I lost track
The women red, the money green,
C
but the numbers were black
I fought for the men in their silk
G
suits to lay down their bets
I took my good share Ma,
I have no regrets
Verse 6
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Then I took the fix at the state armory
with big John McDowell
From high in the rafters
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I watched myself fall
As he raised his arm my stomach
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twisted and the sky it went black
I stuffed my bag with their good money
and I never looked back
Verse 7
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Understand,
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in the end Ma every man plays the game
If you know me one different
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then speak out his name
Ma if my voice now you don't recognize
Then just open the door and look
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into your dark eyes
I ask of you nothing,
Am
G
not a kiss not a smile,
Just open the door and let
me lie down for a while
Verse 8
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Now the gray rain's falling
and my ring fightin's done
So in the work fields and alleys
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I take all who'll come
If you're a better man than me then
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just step to the line
C
Now there's nothing I want Ma
G
nothing that you need say
Just let me lie down for a while
and I'll be on my way
Verse 9
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Tonight in the shipyard a man
draws a circle in the dirt
I move to the center and
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I take off my shirt
I study him for the cuts, the scars, the pain,
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Man, nor the time can erase
Outro 1
I move hard to the left and I strike to the face
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