The Hitter
Gd Cd G C D Ch
6|--X--|--X--|--X--|--X--|--2--|--X--|
5|--3--|--3--|--0--|--1--|--3--|--1--|
4|--0--|--0--|--0--|--0--|--2--|--0--|
3|--0--|--2--|--0--|--2--|--0--|--X--|
2|--2--|--3--|--2--|--3--|--X--|--2--|
1|--3--|--X--|--3--|--X--|--X--|--X--|
(he does some variations between Gd and G as well as C and Cd)
Gd Cd Gd
Come to the door, Ma, and unlock the chain.
Cd
I was just passin' through and got caught in the rain.
Gd
There's nothin' I want, nothin' that you need say.
D G
Just let me lie down for a while and I'll be on my way.
C Gd
I was no more than a kid when you put me on the Southern Queen.
C
With the police on my back I fled to New Orleans.
Gd
I fought in the dockyards and with the money I made.
D Gd
I knew the fight was my home and blood was my trade.
C Gd
Baton Rouge, Ponchatoula, and Lafayette town.
C
Well they payed me their money, Ma, to knock the men down.
Gd
I did what I did, yeah it come easily.
D Gd
Restraint and mercy, Ma, were always strangers to me.
Interlude:
G C C Ch Ch G C C C G G G G
Gd C Gd
I fought champion Jack Thompson in a field full of mud.
C
Rain poured through the tent to the canvas and mixed with our blood.
Gd
In the twelfth I slipped my tounge over my broken jaw.
C
I stood over him and pounded his bloody body into the floor.
Gd
Well the bell rang and rang and still I kept on.
D Gd
'Til I felt my glove leather slip 'tween his skin and bone.
C Gd
Then the women and the money came fast and the days I lost track.
C
The women red, the money green, but the numbers were black.
Gd
I fought for the men in their silk suits to lay down their bets.
D Gd
I took my good share, Ma, I have no regrets.
C G
I took the fix at the state armory with big John McDowell.
C
From high in the rafters I watched myself fall.
Gd
As they raised his arms my stomach twisted and the sky it went black.
D G
I stuffed my bag with their good money and I never looked back.
C G
Understand, in the end, Ma, every man plays the game.
D G
If you know me one different then speak out his name.
C
Ma, if my voice now you don't recognize.
G D G
Then just open the door and look into your dark eyes.
C
I ask of you nothin', not a kiss not a smile.
G D G
Just open the door and let me lie down for a while.
C G
Now the gray rain's fallin' and my ring fightin's done.
Cd
So in the work fields and alleys, I take all who'll come.
Gd
If you're a better man than me then just step to the line.
C
And show me your money and speak out your crime.
Gd
Now there's nothin' I want, Ma, nothin' that you need say.
D G
Just let me lie down for a while and I'll be on my way.
Tonight in the shipyard, a man draws a circle in the dirt.
Cd
I move to the center and I take off my shirt.
Gd
I study him for the cuts, the scars, the pain, Man nor time can erase.
C G
I move hard to the left and I strike to the face.
Interlude:
G C C Ch Ch G C C C G G G G G G
Credit for this goes to Thomas Merchel.
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COMMENTS:
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ADD A COMMENT:
JENA
18/5/2005 - 15:39:45 i play it in a different way
D A7 D
G D
G D
D A7 D