Joe Louis' Furniture

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