Great White Hope

Ladies and gentleman, ladies and gentleman, your attention, please?
 In this corner, wearing white, from the city of the big shoulders
 The number one contender in ten round exhibition for your entertainment
 So when the bell sounds prepare yourselves for the main event
 When I was a young man
 I had to kick and scratch and claw
 Now it's like top gun in the old west
 Everybody wants me to draw
 If I had known it would be like this
 I might have given it a second thought
 But if someone had told me to give it up
 It's a line that I wouldn't have bought
 Look at me
 I'm the great white hope
 Can't you see?
 I'm up against the ropes
 Don't you know?
 It's so hard to cope
 When you feel
 Like the great white hope
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 Look at me
 I'm the great white hope
 Can't you see?
 I'm up against the ropes
 Don't you know?
 It's so hard to cope
 When you feel
 Like the great white hope
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 Now you've paid your money
 You're sitting in your ringside seat
 And I know that some of you out there
 Might wanna see the champ get beat
 If I had known it would be like this
 I might have given it a second thought
 But real life sure isn't like school
 There's some lessons that just can't be taught
 Look at me
 I'm the great white hope
 Can't you see?
 I'm up against the ropes
 Don't you know?
 It's so hard to cope
 When you feel
 Like the great white hope
 Look at me
 I'm against the ropes
 Look at me
 So hard to cope
 Look at me
 Great white hope
 Look at me
 Up against the ropes
 Look at me
 So hard to cope