Cops and Robbers-Bo Diddley

[ti:Cops and Robbers] [ar:Bo Diddley] [al:Have Guitar, Will Travel In the Spotlight. The Definitive Remastered Edition (Bonus Track Version)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Cops and Robbers - Bo Diddley (波迪·德利) [00:05.60]As I was driving home along the boulevard late one night [00:09.46] [00:11.27]I saw a guy in the corner bumming all alone [00:15.08] [00:16.43]As I passed him by I heard him holler out: "Hey " [00:20.64] [00:22.82]I slowed down to see what he said he said: [00:26.97]"Eh By any chance are you goin' my way " [00:29.57] [00:30.44]I said: "sure baby hop on in and give me a cigarette" [00:33.29] [00:35.25]Then he reached out in his pocket [00:37.26] [00:38.98]And that was the moment I regret [00:40.76] [00:41.47]Well now boy "Reach for the sky " [00:43.73] [00:46.37]Because I don't understand sir [00:47.56] [00:51.65]"Don't you try no monkey business [00:53.17] [00:54.31]I got a stopper in my hand " [00:57.08] [01:01.33]An' then he said: "You see this rock I got in my hand [01:05.88] [01:06.47]This is a 38 pistol built on a 45 frame [01:10.63] [01:11.49]It shoots tombstone bullets an' a ball and chain " [01:14.42] [01:15.67]He said: "I ain't tryin' to shake you up [01:17.85] [01:18.64]But I just want you to know [01:20.32] [01:21.82]If the cops start to crowding me in [01:23.52] [01:24.42]You're gonna be the first to go [01:26.48]You just drive on just like there ain't nothin' happenin'" [01:28.17]That's what he told me he wouldn't [01:29.88] [01:31.01]Even let me look back at nothin' [01:32.95] [01:34.52]And he said: "when you get to that red light [01:36.38] [01:37.21]I want you to jump back your left [01:39.50]And then switch back your right" [01:41.33] [01:42.02]He said: "Now I want you to park up in that alley [01:46.55]Ah ah not that alley that one over there [01:48.45] [01:49.28]And cool it behind that liquor store [01:50.89] [01:51.58]And keep a sharp lookout at all times [01:53.72]While I sneak in that back door" [01:55.29]That's what he told me [01:56.41] [01:58.00]He said:"keep your foot on the gas [01:59.60] [02:00.46]And always be on guard [02:01.57] [02:02.28]'Cos when I come runnin' out the liquor store with all that money [02:04.92]He wanted me to mash on it real hard [02:06.69] [02:09.06]He said: "Now don't you come [02:11.11]Out of there an' try me a double-crossed [02:13.99] [02:17.02]Because it's murder when the heats on " [02:20.42] [02:22.69]"Reach for the sky " [02:23.87] [02:26.69]Yeah but I don't understand sir [02:28.21] [02:31.94]"Don't you try no monkey business [02:33.42] [02:34.27]I got a stopper in my hand " [02:35.96] [02:41.30]Ooeee while I was sittin' there just tremblin' [02:44.22] [02:45.77]A spotlight hit me dead in the face [02:48.86] [02:50.22]An' a cop pulled up behind me and said: [02:52.90]"Move up a bit man for we want to take your place " [02:55.40] [02:56.58]An' then this guy come runnin' out of [02:59.04]The store with the money in his hand [03:01.30]And said "Oh there you are " [03:02.68] [03:03.46]He made a mistake in the dark and ran [03:05.87]And leaped in the police car [03:07.22] [03:08.86]When they put the handcuffs on him [03:10.60]I said: "Child your crime must have outgrew him " [03:14.39] [03:16.25]An' then they said: "Yeh we gonna put him [03:18.79]So far back in jail this time [03:20.70]That they're gonna have to pump air into him "