The Hitter chords by
Tom Jones

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Key: G major•

Intro 1

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Verse 1

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Come to the door Ma, and unlock the chain

I was just passing through and got

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caught in the rain

There's nothing I want,

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nothing that you need say

Just let me lie down for a while

and I'll be on my way

Verse 2

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I was no more than a kid when you put

me on the Southern Queen

With the police on my back

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I fled to New Orleans

I fought in the dockyards and with

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the money I made

I knew the fight was my home

and blood was my trade

Verse 3

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Baton Rouge,

Poncitoula, and Lafayette town

Well they paid me their money Ma

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I knocked the men down

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I did what I did well it come easily

Restraint and mercy Ma were

always strangers to me

Verse 4

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I fought champion Jack Thompson

in a field full of mud

Rain poured through the tent to the canvas

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and mixed with our blood

In the twelfth I slipped my tongue

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over my broken jaw

I stood over him and pounded his

bloody body into the floor

Well the bell rang and rang

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and still I kept on

Till I felt my glove leather slip

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'tween his skin and bone

Verse 5

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Then the women and the money came

fast and the days I lost track

The women red, the money green,

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but the numbers were black

I fought for the men in their silk

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suits 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

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I watched myself fall

As he raised his arm my stomach

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twisted and the sky it went black

I stuffed my bag with their good money

and I never looked back

Verse 7

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Understand,

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in the end Ma every man plays the game

If you know me one different

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then speak out his name

Ma if my voice now you don't recognize

Then just open the door and look

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into your dark eyes

I ask of you nothing,

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not a kiss not a smile,

Just open the door and let

me lie down for a while

Verse 8

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Now the gray rain's falling

and my ring fightin's done

So in the work fields and alleys

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I take all who'll come

If you're a better man than me then

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just step to the line

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Now there's nothing I want Ma

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nothing that you need say

Just let me lie down for a while

and 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

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I take off my shirt

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

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Man, nor the time can erase

Outro 1

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

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