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Lyrics for Copper by Harry Chapin:
| | | Artist: | Harry Chapin |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Copper | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 94 | | | | Lyrics: | If you were looking for a way to make me mad it was a sure fire way you found
Acting like a half
wit fool, laying your money around
Well I came back here 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
thirteen he's growing Lou, two years and he'll be bigger than me
Still he thinks I'm strong as a
blacksmith and straighter than the tall oak tree
I raised him alone ten years now since his Mama
ran away
And you ain't gonna blow his image of me for the stunt like you pulled
today
Chorus:
They took the copper right out of 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've got to treat me
like a living saint Lou, whenever my 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 wouldn't that be something to see?
'Cause then the kid would kick right off
of 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 salesman guy
I started to see things so differently, cut
your own slice out of 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 way to hide
I spent half my life without no wife ridin' herd on the
scum of the earth
I learned the tricks of the trade from the gutter | | | |  Reddit | X / Twitter | Facebook | Copy link |
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