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)