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| Introduction | |
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| Maybe they think I'm so old because I never was really young | |
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| This is the Atomic Age, Peaches | |
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| I figured I had to pay for what I did | |
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| That's why you can't be rich | |
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| I am not a social friend of Mr Carbo's, Mr Chairman | |
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| Where you going? I don't know | |
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| Just address the envelope 'Cassius Clay, USA' | |
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| It's nice to be nice | |
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| Don't dump your trash on us | |
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| A blues song just for fighters | |
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| He must have died last night | |
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| That blankness of not knowing | |
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| Still the bad guy | |
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| Even Cleopatra was ringside | |
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| I pity a man who hates | |
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| God save the King, God save boxing | |
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| I'll be as good as people will let me be | |
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| I want to make a beautiful life | |
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| He's just a little boy in the dark and he's scared | |
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| Rumble, young man, rumble | |
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| This kid is out of his mind | |
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| A dancing bear and a freak who never stops talking | |
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| What the hell is this? What did they do? | |
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| I am his best friend, at least in Philadelphia | |
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| To Boston and Suitcase Sam | |
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| Every gangster wants to be Al Capone | |
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| He could have died | |
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| Sonny? You out there? | |
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| Yes, it's me in your town | |
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| Of moose and men | |
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| The boy is gone | |
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| Of scientific triumph and lofty purpose | |
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| Get up, you bum! Get up, you bum! | |
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| He's gonna mess himself up so nobody won't go to see him | |
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| Sonny's last years | |
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| Nobody never gets killed in Vegas | |
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| I'm not scared to die. I've made my peace | |
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| Afterword | |
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| Postscript | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |