sonny liston was a man with dead eyes.
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every man alive was scared to look in them cold dead cloudy eyes.
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he couldn't read & he couldn't write.
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all that he knew how to do was rob and he could fight.
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he never knew the day or year that he was born.
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his mama had 13 kids on an arkansas farm.
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he never had no love to share for his dad.
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he said that bastard beat me every chance he had.
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he started his career out on a robbing spree
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where he and his 2 buddies got thrown in the slammer.
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he learned to box there.
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the wardens & the preachers taught him.
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he got so good, they let him out early to benefit the sport and the nation.
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back then boxing was ruled by frankie carbo.
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him & a handful of other mafioso types you wouldn't wanna fuck with.
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they got sonny's contract fair
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and square by tapping his old manager on the shoulder saying get outta here.
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he fought his way to the top and he never did look back.
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knocked the champ on his ass in 2 minutes flat
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and that's where his troubles began.
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he started drinking gambling and partying all night long.
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but he was fighting and winning still so nobody seemed to mind.
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then came cassius clay, he gave sonny the fight of his life.
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7 rounds later there was a new king of the ring,
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and sonny walked away with his head in his hands.
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now sonny still worked for the mob,
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and the story goes he upset them.
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so his wife comes home to find his dead bloated body
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filled with drugs he never used.
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The Ballad Of Sonny Liston
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