The Hitter

The Hitter easy guitar chords by Tom Jones

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    • Intro 1
    G

    Verse 1
    G

    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
    G

    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
    G

    the money I made

    I knew the fight was my home

    and blood was my trade
    Verse 3
    G

    Baton Rouge,

    Poncitoula, and Lafayette town

    Well they paid me their money Ma
    C

    I knocked the men down
    G

    I did what I did well it come easily

    Restraint and mercy Ma were

    always strangers to me
    Verse 4
    G

    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
    G

    '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
    G

    Then I took the fix at the state armory

    with big John McDowell

    From high in the rafters
    C

    I watched myself fall

    As he raised his arm my stomach
    G

    twisted and the sky it went black

    I stuffed my bag with their good money

    and I never looked back
    Verse 7
    G

    Understand,
    C

    in the end Ma every man plays the game

    If you know me one different
    G

    then speak out his name

    Ma if my voice now you don't recognize

    Then just open the door and look
    C

    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
    G

    Now the gray rain's falling

    and my ring fightin's done

    So in the work fields and alleys
    C

    I take all who'll come

    If you're a better man than me then
    G

    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
    G

    Tonight in the shipyard a man

    draws a circle in the dirt

    I move to the center and
    C

    I take off my shirt

    I study him for the cuts, the scars, the pain,
    G

    Man, nor the time can erase
    Outro 1

    I move hard to the left and I strike to the face
    G

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