Testo Cops and Robbers - Bo Diddley
Testo della canzone Cops and Robbers (Bo Diddley), tratta dall'album Saga All Stars: I'm Bad! / The Singles 1955-1957
I was driving home on the boulevard late one night
When I spied a guy over on the corner
Bumming all alone
Now as I passed him by
I heard him holler out, "Hey!"
I slowed down to see what he said
He hollers on, "By any chance are you going my way?"
I said, "Why sure baby, hop on in and give me a cigarette"
Just then he reached down in his pocket
And that was the moment I regret
He hollered, "Reach for the sky"
I said, "But I don't understand, sir"
"Don't try no monkey business
I've got the stopper in my hand"
And then he says, "Look here, you see this here I got in my hand
This is a.38 pistol, built on a.45 frame
Shoots two stone bullets and a ball and chain"
He said, "Now I ain't trying to shake you up
But I just want you to know
If the cops start to crowding me any
You're gonna be the first to go
So now look here, don't even look back
You just drive on just like ain't nothing happening"
That's what he told me
He wouldn't even let me look back at nothing
He said, "When I get to that red light"
He wanted me to go to my left
And then jump back to my right
He says, "Now I want you to drive up in that alley
Uh-uh not that alley, that one over there
And cool it behind that liquor store
And keep a sharp lookout at all times
While I sneak in that back door"
That's what he told me
He said, "Keep my foot on that gas
And always be on guard"
'Cause when he come running out there with all that money
He wanted me to mash on it real hard
He said, "Now don't let him come out of there
And find me a double cross
Because he's murder when the heat's on"
"Reach for the sky"
I said, "But I don't understand, sir"
"Don't try no monkey business
I've got the stopper in my hand"
While I was sitting there just shrimping
A spotlight hit me dead in the face
The cops pulled up behind me and said
"Move up a little bit, man
For we wanna take your place"
And then this guy come running out of the store
With the money in his hand and said, "Oh there you are"
He made a mistake in the dark
And ran and leaped in the police car
When they put the handcuffs on him
I said, "Child, your crime has outgrew him"
And then they said, "Yeah, we're gonna put him so far back in jail
This time that they're gonna have to pump air into him"
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Writer(s): Kent Harris
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