Chords for Mark Knopfler - Song For Sonny Liston (The Studio Albums 1996-2007)

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_ _ _ _ So many mouths to feed on a farm _ _
A son who was a second to the last one born _
_ His mama ran away and his daddy beat him bad
_ _ And he grew up wild, good love he never had
He had a left like Henry's hammer
A right like Benny Bama
Rode with the muggers in the dark and dread
And all of them sluggers went down like the dead
_ Well _
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_ _ _ [E] _ [C#] he hung with the hoods he wouldn't stroke the fans _ _ _
Weighed dynamite in both his hands
_ _ Boom bam like slamming doors
_ _ _ The bell and the can and the bodies on the four beware
The bears in town, somebody's money says the bears going down
Yeah, the bear never smiles
The sun is going down [G#] for _ _ _ miles and miles
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The _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
rioters _ didn't like him, fight game jokes
_ _ With his lowlife backers in his hands like rocks _ _
_ He didn't want to have a boy he married
_ _ They didn't like him and he didn't like [F#] them
Black Cadillac, alligator [C#] boots
Money in the pockets of his short-skinned suits
Some say [A#] the bear took a [C#] flop
They couldn't believe it when they saw him drop
He had a left like Henry's hammer
A right like Benny Bama
_ Rode with the muggers in the dark and dread
And all of them sluggers went down like the dead _ _
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Joe Lewis was his hero he tried to be the same
_ _ But a criminal child who has a ball and chain
_ _ Some civil rights people didn't want him on the throne _ _
And the hacks and the cops wouldn't [C#] leave him alone
The _ bears in town, somebody's money says the bears going down
Yeah, the bear never [C#m] smiles
The sun is going down for miles and [A] miles _ _
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_ _ _ At the foot of his bed with his feet on the floor
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He's doping his veins and a pistol on his door
_ _ _ One investigation says _ _ _
He hated needles but he knew too [F#] much
Crips and costs on his [C#] back
Scars from his daddy like slavery checks
The second last [A#] child was the second last [C#] king
Never again was it the same in the ring
He had a left like [C#] Henry's hammer
A right like Benny Bama
_ Rode with the muggers in the dark and dread
And all of them sluggers went down like the dead
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_ _ They never could be sure about the day he was born
_ _ A motherless child sat working on the farm _ _
And they never could be sure about the day he died _
_ _ The bear was the king they cast aside
The bears in town, somebody's money says the bears going down
Yeah, the bear never smiles
The sun is going down [G#] for miles and miles
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