Written by Warren Zevon
Performed by Bob Dylan during the fall tour 2002
Tabbed by Eyolf Østrem

Warren Zevon's version

Capo 1st fret

G5    355xxx or xx00xx  (or play a straight Em with a G in the
E5    022xxx             bass for the first beats in the riff)
D9    xx0210 or x54530

  G5    E5                            G5    E5
  :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-0---------------|---------0-2-----|-0---------------|-----------------|
|-0-----2-----2---|-----2---0-2-----|-0-----2-----2---|-----------------|
|-------2-----2---|-----2-----------|-------2-----2---|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|

G5    E5         G5    E5
Hurry home early hurry on home
C            G               F#m      E5
Boom Boom Mancini's fighting Bobby Chacon
Hurry home early hurry on home
Boom Boom Mancini's fighting Bobby Chacon

     G5    E5               G5   E5
From Youngstown, Ohio, Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini
  G              D            G      D    E5
A lightweight contender, like father like son
He fought for the title with Frias in Vegas
And he put him away in round number one

Hurry home early hurry on home
Boom Boom Mancini's fighting Bobby Chacon x2

When Alexis Arguello gave Boom Boom a beating
Seven weeks later he was back in the ring
Some have the speed and the right combinations
If you can't take the punches, it don't mean a thing

Hurry home early hurry on home
Boom Boom Mancini's fighting Bobby Chacon x2

          G
When they asked him who was responsible
        D
For the death of Du Koo Kim
          C
He said, "Some one should have stopped the fight
    D9             E
And told me it was him."

They made hypocrite judgements after the fact
But the name of the game is be hit and hit back

Hurry home early hurry on home
Boom Boom Mancini's fighting Bobby Chacon
Hurry home early hurry on home
Boom Boom Mancini's fighting Bobby Chacon

Dylan's version

Some of the harmonic finesses lack – this is a more straightforward Em blues of some kind. Some minor lyric changes, some of which may even be conscious.

Capo 3rd fret

  G     Em
  :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .
|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|
|-0---------------|---------0-2-----|  rep.
|-------2-----2---|-----2-----------|
|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|

G     Em         G     Em
Hurry home early hurry on home
C            G               D        Em
Boom Boom Mancini's fighting Bobby Chacon
Hurry home early hurry on home
Boom Boom Mancini's fighting Bobby Chacon

     G     Em               G    Em
From Youngstown, Ohio, Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini
  G              D            G      D    Em
A lightweight contender, like father like son
He fought for the title with Frias in Vegas
And he put him away in round number one

Hurry home early hurry on home
Boom Boom Mancini's fighting Bobby Chacon x2

When Alexis Arguello gave Boom Boom a beating
Seven months later he was back in the ring
Some have the speed and the right combinations
If you can't take the punches, it don't mean a thing

Hurry home early hurry on home
Boom Boom Mancini's fighting Bobby Chacon x2

          Em                  G
When they asked him who was responsible
        D
For the death of Du Koo Kim
          C
He said, "Some one should have stopped the fight
                      Em
And told me it was him."

They made hypocrite judgements after the fact
But the name of the game is be hit and hit back

Hurry home early hurry on home
Boom Boom Mancini's fighting Bobby Chacon
Hurry home early hurry on home
Boom Boom Mancini's fighting Bobby Chacon