Eddie & Mae - Original Broadway Cast/2000

I usually go on just before the headliner
And always after Piergo's Trained Birds.
And then it's Eddie Mackrel. The Champ!
Course it ain't nothing like being in the ring
Ain't nothing like the real thing

My Eddie's a hero just like Lindbergh
Except Lindbergh's white and flies planes
My Eddie's colored and beats people up

So I'm there in the ring
And the crowd starts to shout
I go in for the kill
And I knock the man out
And the referee barks-
It's the end of the bout
And that's the first time they called me 'The Champ'

Yeah!
Those were the days
I ascended on high
Taking on the Golden Boy
O'Malley oh my
Bye, bye, bye those were the years. And I
Gave them plenty of reason to call me "The Champ"!
Ah! The Women!
Any one I wanted, any way-
Browns and blondes and women
And then somehow I was one day

Eddie and Mae
Champ's got a wife
Got settled down, got a whole diff'rent life
Can't take the Golden Boy on anymore
It's only on stage
I'm what I was before
Eddie and Mae
Eddie and Mae
Eddie and Mae-

So he gave me the ring in Buffalo
And girls, I'm glad I left the show
I figure one door opening is- you know
Life is a dream since I married The Champ
He plays the week and Saturdays
Three a night
Plus matinees
In Detroit the theater ran outta 'A's
So the marquee read
'The Chomp'

And women?
They flock around him like hungry birds
Jealous jealous women
'Cause my future lies in three little words
Eddie and Mae!
Talk about bliss
Nobody here's got it better than this
So what I if I gave up
My place on the line?
At least I got something
I call mine, all mine (Duck!)

Eddie and Mae (Jab!)
Eddie and Mae (Fake!)
Eddie and Mae (Left!)
Eddie and Mae (He's out!)
Eddie and Mae (Those were the days)
Ain't we a team (Of my holy fame)
Happy as clams (King of the hill)
Life is a dream! (At the top of my game)

The crowd going wild
At the sound of my name
Before (Everything seems possible)
I became (Since I became)
Eddie and Mae
Eddie and Mae
Eddie and Mae!
Eddie and Mae
Eddie and Mae
Eddie and Mae!