This is called Who Killed Davy Moore.
Who killed Davy Moore?
Why and what's the reason for?
Not I, said the referee,
don't point your finger at me.
I could have stopped it in the eighth
and maybe kept him from his fate.
But the crowd would have booed,
I'm sure,
at not getting their money's worth.
It's too bad he had to go,
but there was pressure on me too.
You know it wasn't me that made him fall.
You can't blame me at all.
Who killed Davy Moore?
Why and what's the reason for?
Not us,
said the angry crowd,
whose screams filled the arena loud.
It's too bad he had to die that night,
but we'd just like to see a good old-fashioned fight.
We didn't mean for him to meet his death,
we just wanted to see some sweat.
There ain't nothing wrong in that.
It wasn't us that made him fall.
You can't blame us at all.
Who killed Davy Moore?
Why and what's the reason for?
Not me, said his manager,
puffing on a big cigar.
It's hard to say, it's hard to tell.
I always thought that he was well.
It's too bad for his wife and kids he's dead,
but if he was sick
he should have said,
it wasn't me that made him fall.
You can't blame me at all.
Who killed Davy
Moore?
Why and what's the reason for?
Not me, said the gambling man with his ticket
stub still in his hand.
It wasn't me that knocked him down,
my hands didn't touch him
none.
I didn't commit no ugly sin anyway,
I put money on him to win.
It wasn't me that
made him fall.
You can't blame me at all.
Who killed Davy Moore?
Why and what's the
reason for?
Not me,
said the boxing writer who pounds the print in his old typewriter,
saying boxing is here to stay.
There's just as much foot and danger in a football game.
Saying fist fighting is here to stay.
It's just the old American way.
It wasn't me that made him fall.
You can't blame me at all.
Who killed Davy Moore?
Why and what's the reason for?
Not me, said the
Not me,
said the man whose fists laid him low in a cloud of mist.
Who came here from Cuba's door where boxing ain't allowed no more.
I hit him,
I hit him,
yes it's true,
but that's what I'm paid to do.
Don't say murder, don't say kill.
It was destiny, it was God's will.
Who killed Davy Moore?
Why and what's the reason for?