This is called Who Killed Davy Moore
why and what's the reason for
Not I, said the ref eree,
don't point your finger at me
I could have stopped it in the eighth
But the crowd would have booed
It's too bad he had to go,
but there was pressure on me,
You know it wasn't me that made him fall.
You can't blame me at all.
Why and what's the reason for?
Not us, said the angry crowd,
whose screams filled the arena loud.
It's too bad he had to die that night.
We just like to see a good
We didn't mean for him to meet his death
There ain't nothing wrong in that
It wasn't us that made him fall
You can't blame us at all
Why and what's the reason for?
Not me, said his man ager
It's hard to say, it's hard to tell,
I always thought that he was well
It's too bad for his wife and kids he's dead,
but if he was sick he should have said
It wasn't me that made him fall,
you can't blame me at all
And what's the reason for it?
Not me, said the gamblin' man
with his ticket stub still in his hand
It wasn't me that knocked him down,
my hands didn't touch him none
I didn't commit no ugly sin anyway,
I put money on him to win
It wasn't me that made him fall,
you can't blame me at all
Who killed Davy Moore? Why?
And what's the reason for?
Not me, said the boxing writer
who pounds the front in his
Saying boxing is here to stay
There's just as much foot and danger
Saying fist fighting is here to stay
It's just the old American way
It wasn't me that made him fall
You can't blame me at all
Why and what's the reason for it?
Not me, said the man whose fists
Laid him low in a cloud of mist
Who came here from Cuba's
Where boxing ain't allowed no more
I hit him, I hit him, yes it's true
But that's what I'm paid to do
Don't say murder, don't say kill
It was destiny, it was God's will
And what's the reason for?
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