| If you were looking for a way to make me mad it was a sure fire way you found
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| Acting like a half wit fool, laying your money around
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| Well I came back here to tell you Lou, 'bout what you almost did
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| Don’t you ever put the cash on the counter Lou, when I’m with my kid
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| Yeah the kid’s thirteen he’s growing Lou, two years and he’ll be bigger than me
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| Still he thinks I’m strong as a blacksmith and straighter than the tall oak tree
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| I raised him alone ten years now since his Mama ran away
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| And you ain’t gonna blow his image of me for the stunt like you pulled today
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| They took the copper right out of the penny Lou
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| They got the pig locked up in the pen
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| But you’re in big trouble with me, yes you
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| If you ever do that again
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| Ten bucks a week protection don’t mean I can’t knock you down
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| You’ve got to treat me like a living saint Lou, whenever my son’s around
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| Yeah the kid wants to be a policeman just like me
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| You know he’ll be a good one the way I started out to be
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| And he just might end up police chief, now wouldn’t that be something to see?
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| 'Cause then the kid would kick right off of the force all the two-bit grifters
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| like me
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| They took the copper right out of the penny Lou
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| They got the pig locked up in the pen
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| But you’re in big trouble with me, yes you
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| If you ever do that again
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| Ten bucks a week protection don’t mean I can’t knock you down
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| You’ve got to treat me like a living saint Lou, whenever my son’s around
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| I guess it was when my old lady left me and she took off with a salesman guy
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| I started to see things so differently, cut your own slice out of the pie
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| Yeah I grew up and it came clear to me all the smart cops on the make
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| You get a silver badge not an old tin star when you’re on the take
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| It’s pimps and whores, punk gang wars, robberies and homicides
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| When you walk the beat with the creeps on the street, well there ain’t no way
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| to hide
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| I spent half my life without no wife ridin' herd on the scum of the earth
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| I learned the tricks of the trade from the gutter parade and then I prayed for
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| all I’m worth
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| Don’t you know I appreciate the money Lou, 'cause it all goes into the bank
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| And when I send my kid to college someday I’ll have guys like you to thank
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| Yeah ten bucks a week on your grocery store means you don’t have to worry 'bout
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| crime But hold your money when the kid’s with me you can pay me double next
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| time
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| They took the copper right out of the penny Lou
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| They got the pig locked up in the pen
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| But you’re in big trouble with me, yes you
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| If you ever do that again
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| Ten bucks a week protection don’t mean I can’t knock you down
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| You’ve got to treat me like a living saint Lou, whenever my son’s around
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| Ten bucks a week protection don’t mean I can’t knock you down
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| You’ve got to treat me like a living saint Lou, whenever my son’s around |
Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Copper , by - Harry Chapin. Song from the album Legends Of The Lost And Found - New Greatest Stories Live, in the genre Поп