[Verse 1]
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 pa**ed 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
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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'
[Verse 2]
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
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[Verse 3]
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