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