Cops and Robbers Lyrics - The Rolling Stones

1 As I was driving home along the boulevard late one night

2 I saw a guy in the corner, bumming all alone

3 As I passed him by, I heard him holler out: "Hey!"

4 I slowed down to see what he said, he said:

5 "Eh! By any chance, are you goin' my way?"

6 I said: "sure baby, hop on in and give me a cigarette"

7 Then he reached out in his pocket

8 And that was the moment I regret

9 Well now boy "Reach for the sky!"

10 Because I don't understand, sir

11 "Don't you try no monkey business, I got a stopper in my hand!"

12 An' then he said: "You see this rock I got in my hand?

13 This is a 38 pistol built on a 45 frame

14 It shoots tombstone bullets an' a ball and chain!"

15 He said: "I ain't tryin' to shake you up, but I just want you to know

16 If the cops start to crowding me in

17 You're gonna be the first to go!

18 You just drive on just like there ain't nothin' happenin'"

19 That's what he told me, he wouldn't even let me look back at nothin'

20 And he said: "when you get to that red light

21 I want you to jump back your left and then switch back your right"

22 He said: "Now, I want you to park up in that alley

23 Ah ah, not that alley, that one over there

24 And cool it behind that liquor store

25 And keep a sharp lookout at all times

26 While I sneak in that back door"

27 That's what he told me

28 He said:"keep your foot on the gas

29 And always be on guard

30 'cos when I come runnin' out the liquor store with all that money

31 He wanted me to mash on it real hard

32 He said: "Now don't you come out of there an' try me a double-crossed

33 Because it's murder when the heats on!"

34 Well now boy "Reach for the sky!"

35 Yeah but I don't understand, sir

36 "Don't you try no monkey business, I got a stopper in my hand!"

37 Ooeee, while I was sittin' there just tremblin'

38 A spotlight hit me dead in the face

39 An' a cop pulled up behind me and said:

40 "Move up a bit man, for we want to take your place!"

41 An' then this guy come runnin' out of the store with the money in his hand

42 And said "Oh there you are!"

43 He made a mistake in the dark and ran and leaped in the police car!

44 When they put the handcuffs on him

45 I said: "Child, your crime must have outgrew him!"

46 An' then they said: "Yeh, we gonna put him so far back in jail this time

47 That they're gonna have to pump air into him!"

48 Well now boy "reach for the sky"

49 Yeah but I said, I don't understand sir

50 Don't you try no monkey business, I got a stopper in my hand