Standard (EADGBE)

If you were looking for a way to get me mad

It was a sure fire way you found

Acting like a half-wit fool, laying your money

around

Well, I came back to tell you Lou,

^?bout what you almost did

Don^?t you ever put the cash on the counter, Lou,

when I^?m with my kid

Yeah, the kid^?s 13, he^?s growin^? Lou, two years

And he^?ll be bigger than me

Still he think^?s I^?m strong as a blacksmith and

straighter than the tall oak tree

I raised him alone ten years now,

since his momma ran away

Well, you ain^?t gonna blow his image of me

With a stunt like you pulled today

Chorus

They took the copper right outta the penny, Lou

They got the pig locked up in the pen

But you^?re in big trouble with me, yes, you

If you ever do that again

Ten bucks a week protection

don^?t mean I can^?t knock you down

You got to treat me [D/c#] like a [D/b] livin^? saint, Lou

Whenever my [G/f#]son^?s around

Yeah, the kid wants to be a policeman, just like me

You know he^?ll be a good one,

the way I started out to be

And he just might end up police chief,

Now [D ]wouldn^?t that be something to see

^?Cause then the kid would kick right- off the force

All the two-bit grifters like me (chorus)

I guess it was when my old lady left me and

She took off with a saleman guy

I started to see things differently,

cut your own slice outta the pie

Yeah, I grew up and it came clear to me,

all the smart cops on the make

You get a silver badge not an old tin star

when you^?re on the take

It^?s pimps and whores, punk gang wars,

Robberies and homicides

When you walk the beat with the creeps on the street

Well, there ain^?t no where to hide

I spent half my life without no wife

Ridin^? heard on the scum of the earth

I learned the tricks of

the [D/c#] trade from the [D/b] gutter parade

And then I prayed for [G/f#] all I^?m worth

Don^?t you know I appreciate the money Lou,

Cause it all goes into the bank

And when I send my kid to college some day

He^?ll have guys like you to thank

Yeah, ten bucks a week on your grocery store

Means you don^?t have to worry ^?bout crime

But hold your money when the kids with me,

You can pay me double next time (chorus)