Lyrics I Don't Fight Anymore - James Blundell

In a bar in Goondiwindi I found this tough old man
On a stool up at the bar black coffee, shaking hand
Seamed with scar and callous from a life of long hard work
As the night wore on I ground him down on why he wouldn't drink

He said there was a woman, don't it always seem that way?
And he loved her more than life itself back in his younger days
But she was like a filly who had never felt the rope
Wild as the wind she'd run around and he just couldn't cope

Then he said
I don't fight any more
I used to think that was the way
But that was just before
I took to one young fella
And I killed him with my hands
That's why I don't fight any more

One night he found Joanna in the strong and loving arms
Of a fine young man who worked the rails and got jobs on farms
He'd been drinking hard before he took that young man's life
Then he didn't hide, he stood and cried and fell before the law

And he said
I don't fight any more
I used to think that was the way
But that was just before
I took to one young fella
And I killed him with my hands
That's why I don't fight any more

Ten years on the dark side of the bars will make you think
That freedom's more than women or the fire of good hard drink
So tonight I sit and toast the ghosts of things that made me grey
I can hear their laughter in the night and they never go away

That's why
I don't fight any more
I used to think that was the way
But that was just before
I took to one young fella
And I killed him with my hands
That's why I don't fight any more

He just said
I don't fight any more
I used to think that was the way
But that was just before
I took to one young fella
And I killed him with my hands

I don't fight any more
(Ooooh)