Cops & Robbers - Bo Diddley
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 see what he said
He hollers-a any by any chance are you going my way
I say why sho baby hop on in and give me a cigarette
Just then he reached down in his pockets
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 a stopper in my hand
And then he says-a a-look-here you see this here
I got in my hand this is a thirty-eight pistol
Built on a fourthy-five frame
Shoots tombstone bullets and a ball and chain'
He said now I am not trying to shake you up
And I but I just want you to know if the cops
Start to crowd me any you going to be the first to go
So now look-here don't even look back
You just drive on just like isn't nothing happening
That's what he told me he wouldn't even let me look
Back at nothing
He say 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-a I want you to drive up in that alley
Uh-uh not in that alley that that one over there
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 because 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 over there and find me
A-double-crosse because he'd murder when the heat's on
He hollered 'reach for the sky
I said 'but I don't understand sir
Don't try no monkey business
I've got a stopper in my hand
Ooo-we while I was sitting there just rambling
A spotlight hit me dead in the face
The cop pulled up behind me and said
Move up a little bit man for we want to 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
Ha 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 you crime have outgrew him
And then they said yeah we going to put him
So far back in jail this time until they going to have
To pump air into him