This guy called “Slim” he owned a string

Of lightweights, welters, everything;

He took the Kid out on the road,

And where they went none of us knowed.

I guessed the Kid had changed his name,

And fightin’ best ones in the game,

I used to dream of him at night,

No letters came—he couldn’t write.

In just about two months or three

I signed up with Bucktooth McGee,