When you’ve got no chance at all,Take it fightin’.When you’re driven to the wall,Take it fightin’.
There are things that we delight inFor the wrongin’ or the rightin’,But the fool you cannot frighten(That you cannot bluff nor frighten)He is King of all.(Take it fightin’.)
When you’re down an’ out an’ utter,Take it fightin’;When they’ve put you in the gutter,Take it fightin’.
There are things that we delight inFor the wrongin’ or the rightin’,But the fool you cannot frighten(That you cannot bluff nor frighten)He is King of all.(Take it fightin’.)
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Canonical recordPOEM-000176
Copy-textFor Australia and Other Poems (1913), Project Gutenberg Australia, anchor TakeItFightin; selected copy retained exactly and independently aligned to the complete 1913 Standard Publishing Company scan (Google Books Db4vAQAAMAAJ)
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