Key: A major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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As I was drivin' home
I saw a guy in the corner,
bummin' all alone
As I passed him by,
I heard him holler out, "hey"
I slowed down to see what he said,
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he said um
Verse 2
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"By any chance,
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hop on in and give me a cigarette"
Then he reached out in his pocket
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And that was the moment I regret
Verse 3
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sir"
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I got a stopper in my hand"
Interlude 1
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Verse 4
"you see this rock I got in my hand?
but I just want you to know
If the cops start crowdin' me in
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So you just drive on like there ain't nothin'
happenin'"
even let me look back on nothin'
Verse 5
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"I want you to park in the alley
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Ah ah, not that, that one over there
And keep a sharp lookout at all times
While I sneak in that back door"
That's what he told me
Verse 6
on the gas
store with all that money"
Verse 7
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He said, "now don't you come outta
there and try me a double- cross
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Because it's murder
when the heat's on"
Verse 8
"Yeah," but I said,
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"I don't understand, sir"
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"Don't you try no monkey business,
Interlude 2
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Verse 9
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just tremblin'
A spotlight hit me dead in the face
The cops pulled up behind
me and said
"Move up a bit man,
we wanna take your place"
Verse 10
the store with the money in his hand
He said, "oh there you are"
He made a mistake in the dark and
ran and leaped in a police car
As they put the handcuffs on him
I said, "child, your crime must
have outgrew him"
And they said, "yeah,
we gonna put him so far back in jail this time
That they gonna have
to pump air into him"
Verse 11
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"Well now boy reach for the sky"
Yeah but I said,
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I got a stopper in my hand" (oh yeah)
Outro 1
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsA E Bm B D
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