(Cash Savage, Joe White, Rene Mancuso)
Young man walking home
T-shirt in his hand
He wears his naked torso tall
He's a proud Australian man
Blood clot in his nose
Bruising 'round his eye
Swelling in his knuckles
He's been dancing tonight
Bloodied and bruised
The bareknuckle boogie
Young man in his last hour
Of his weekly work
Young man's impatient
For somebody to get hurt
He says I'm going to the casino
First I'll get kicked out of there
And there'll be hell to pay
For anybody who dares
We'll get bloodied and bruised
The bareknuckle boogie
Young man get drunk
Young man kicked out
Young man on the ground
Young man in a van
Later in the courtroom
His old lady she weeps
I think his old man is proud
He taught him to dance and he dances well
Bloodied and bruised
The bareknuckle boogie