Song For Sonny Liston-Mark Knopfler

[ti:Song For Sonny Liston] [ar:Mark Knopfler] [al:Trawler's Song(EP)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:14.68]So many mouths to feed on the farm [00:20.23]Sonny was the second to the last one born [00:25.86]His mamma ran away and his daddy beat him bad [00:31.23]And he grew up wild good love he never had [00:34.36]He had a left like henry's hammer [00:37.05]A right like betty bamalam [00:39.68]Rode with the muggers in the dark and dread [00:42.55]And all them sluggers went down like lead [00:45.36] [00:56.25]Well he hung with the hoods he wouldn't stroke the fans [01:01.76]But he had dynamite in both his hands [01:07.79]Boom bam like the slammer door [01:13.23]The bell and the can and the bodies on the floor [01:15.84]Beware the bear's in town somebody's money says [01:20.28]The bear's going down [01:21.90]Yeah the bear never smiles [01:24.52]Sonny's going down for miles and miles [01:27.02]Sonny's going down for miles and miles [01:30.10] [01:35.61]The writers didn't like him the fight game jocks [01:46.54]With his lowlife backers and his hands like rocks [01:52.91]They didn't want to have a bogey man [01:58.16]They didn't like him and he didn't like them [02:00.98]Black cadillac alligator boots [02:03.48]Money in the pockets of his sharkskin suits [02:06.41]Some say the bear took a flop [02:09.22]They couldn't believe it when they saw him drop [02:11.72]He had a left like henry's hammer [02:14.79]A right like betty bamalam [02:17.54]Rode with the muggers in the dark and dread [02:20.35]And all them sluggers went down like lead [02:26.85] [02:28.73]Joe louis was his hero he tried to be the same [02:39.85]But a criminal child wears a ball and chain [02:45.60]So the civil rights people didn't want him on the throne [02:48.56] [02:51.05]And the hacks and the cops wouldn't leave him alone [02:53.78]Beware the bear's in town [02:56.66]Somebody's money says the bear's going down [02:59.66]Yeah the bear never smiles [03:02.41]Sonny's going down for miles and miles [03:05.16]Sonny's going down for miles and miles [03:13.59]At the foot of his bed with his feet on the floor [03:24.60]There was d**e in his veins and a pistol on the drawer [03:30.47]There was no investigation as such [03:35.90]He hated needles but he knew too much [03:38.90]Criss-crossed on his back [03:41.43]Scars from his daddy like slavery tracks [03:44.25]The second-last child was the second-last king [03:47.07]Never again was it the same in the ring [03:49.82]He had a left like henry's hammer [03:52.50]A right like betty bamalam rode with the muggers [03:56.55]In the dark and dread [03:58.11]And all them sluggers went down like lead [04:06.49]They never could be sure about the day he was born [04:28.42]A motherless child set to working on the farm [04:34.12]And they never could be sure about the day he died [04:39.69]The bear was the king they cast aside [04:42.47]Beware the bear's in town [04:45.10]Somebody's money says the bear's going down [04:48.21]Yeah the bear never smiles [04:50.90]Sonny's going down for miles and miles [04:53.59]Sonny's going down for miles and miles