I've got a coffee table
Made of mahogany
With cigarette burns

And water rings
But that don't bother me


I bought it at an auction
Ten years ago
I put my feet up on it

And watch the fights on HBO

Float like a butterfly

Sting like a bee
I am the greatest
Said Muhammad Ali


Oh, but I've got Joe Louis'
Furniture in my den

Twelve years running world
Heavyweight champion
And in my book well

He's the best
There's ever been
And you can't take

That away from him

He came from Alabama

He didn't come from much
He fought his way up
To the top

Then lost his money
To the government


So here I sit
In his old chair
Something about this

Don't seem fair

Now I've worked hard

All my life
With nothing
To show for it

But a poor man's pride