Sugar Ray

He was born Walker Smith Jr in Detroit in the U S A
In the year of nineteen twenty the man who became Sugar Ray
The world's greatest ever pound for pound boxer many boxing purists say
Quite a legend in his lifetime and a legend still today.

In two hundred and two fights only nineteen losses he was a hard man to beat
Sugar Ray Robinson the big hitter like a gazelle on his feet
The middleweight champion of the World when I was a Primary school going boy
More than forty years ago now how the years just seemed to fly

Sugar Ray Robinson in his prime years proved himself in every test
And his bouts with Jake La Motta are still rated amongst the best
By the old time boxing scribes and purists when the great bouts they recall
Their fights were as good as any and many claim the best of all.

In the glory days of boxing the man Sugar reigned supreme
And many still claim him to to be the greatest boxer they had ever seen
With speed and skill and a knockout punch his like never seen before
And in the annals of professional boxing his name will live for forever more.

In my primary school days in the late fifties more than forty years ago
I used to tune in to the big fights on the old pye radio
And I recall great fights and fighters but still the hero of my boyhood day
Was the marvellous Detroit boxer the one known as Sugar Ray.