Tonalità: G major•
Verse 1
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Come to the door, Ma,
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G
and unlock the chain
I was just passin' through and
C
got caught in the rain
There's nothin' I want, nothin'
G
that you need say
Just let me lie down for a while
D
G
and I'll be on my way
C
I was no more than a kid when you put me on the Southern
Verse 2
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Queen
With the police on my back
C
I fled to New Orleans
I fought in the dockyards and with the money I
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made
I knew the fight was my home
and blood was my trade
C
Baton Rouge, Ponchatoula, and Lafayette
Verse 3
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town
Well they paid me their money,
C
Ma, I knocked the men down
I did what I did well it come
Restraint and mercy,
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G
C
Ma, were always strangers to me
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C
Verse 4
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I fought champion Jack Thompson in a
C
G
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
G
over my broken jaw
I stood over him and pounded his bloody
C
body into the floor
Well the bell rang and rang and
G
still I kept on
'Till I felt my glove leather slip
'tween his skin and bone
C
Then the women and the money came fast and the days I lost
Verse 5
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track
The women red, the money green,
C
but the numbers were black
I fought for the men in their silk suits
G
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
C
I watched myself fall
As they raised his arm my stomach
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twisted and the sky it went black
I stuffed my bag with their good money
D
G
and I never looked back
C
Understand, in the end, Ma, every man plays the
Verse 7
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game
If you know me one different then
speak out his name
C
Ma, if my voice now
you don't recognize
G
Then just open the door and look
D
G
into your dark eyes
C
I ask of you nothin', not
a kiss not a smile,
G
Just open the door and let me
D
lie down for a while
G
Now
Verse 8
the gray rain's fallin' and my
C
G
ring fightin's done
So in the work fields and alleys I take all
If you're a better man than me then
G
just step to the line
Show me your money and speak out
Now there's nothin' I want, Ma, nothin'
G
that you need say
Just let me lie down for a while and
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G
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 I take off
I study him for the cuts, the scars,
the pain,
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Man, nor time can erase
I move hard to the left and
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G
C
I strike to the face
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C
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