Key: E major
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D
Cops & Robbers Trk 23 Disc 1
(Jerome Green)
Bo Diddley - vocal & guitar,
Willie Dixon - bass
Clifton James - drums, Jerome
Green - maracas & vocal
Otis Spann - piano. Recorded October
1956, Chicago.
B0009231- 02 Hipo Select
(Geffen) 2007
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Spoken Story:
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G
I was drivin' home on the boulevard
D
Late one night, when I spied a guy over
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On the corner, bummin' all alone.
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G
D
Now, as I passed him by I heard him holler out,
'Hey! '
I slowed down, see what he said
He hollers- a,
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D
'A- by any chance are you goin' my way? '
I say, 'Why sho' baby,
hop on in and gimme a cigarette'
G
Just then he reached down
D
in his pockets
G
D
And that was the moment I regret.
G
Sings: He hollered, 'Reach for the
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G
sky'
D
G
D
I said, 'But I don't understand, sir? '
A
G
'Don't try no monkey business
D
I've got a stopper in my
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D
G
hand'
D
Eb
Spoken: And then, he says- a, 'A-
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look- here,
you see this here
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D
I got in my hand, this is a.38 pistol,
built on a.45 frame
Shoots tombstone bullets and a
ball and chain'.
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He said, 'Now, I ain't tryin' to shake
you up'
(And I) 'But I just want you to know,
if the cops
Start to crowd me any,
you gon' be the first to go'
G
D
'So, now look- here,
don't even look back
You just drive on just like ain't
nothin' happenin'
That's what he told me. He
wouldn't even let me look
Back at nothin'.
He say, 'When I get to that red
light' he wanted me
G
D
G
D
To go to my left and then jump
back to my right.
He says, 'Now- a,
G
I want you to drive up in that alley.'
D
'Uh- uh, not in that alley, that,
G
that one over there'
D
'And cool it behind that liquor
sto' and keep a sharp
Lookout at all times while I sneak
in that back do'.
That's what he told me!
He say, 'Keep my foot
on the gas and always
Be on guard,
G
'cause when he come runnin' out there
D
Wit' all that money,
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D
he wanted me to mash on it real hard!
G
He said, 'Now, don't let him come
D
out a- d'ere and find me
A- double- crossed' Because he'd murder
G
D
G
when the heat's on.
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Sings:
Reach for the sky
D
A
I said, 'But I don't understand, sir'
Don't try no monkey business
G
I've got the stopper in
D
my hand
G
D
A
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Ooo- we, while I was sittin' there
just s'ramblin'
A spotlight hit me dead in the face.
The cop pulled up behind me and said
'Move up alittle bit, man,
for we wanna take your place'
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And then this guy come run
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nin' outta the sto'
With the money in his hand and said,
'Oh, there you are! '
Ha, he made a mistake
in the dark and ran and leaped
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In the police car.
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D
When they put the handcuffs on him
G
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I said, 'Child,
yo' crime have outgrew him'
G
And then they said, 'Yeah,
D
we gonna' put him
So far back in jail this time,
'till they gonna have
To pump air into him.
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ChordsD G A Eb
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