CHICAGO COPS
(Bob Gibson and Bob/Hamilton Camp)

I'm an old Chicago copper and that's just what I am.
For these investigations I do not give a damn.
I'll tell all those do-gooders just where they all can go,
'Cause I don't want no changes made. I like the status quo.

I'm prompt, alert, and efficient when on the outer drive.
I haven't made a single pinch since 1935.
I'm courteous to the speeders. I praise them for their skill.
And I always have the proper change for a twenty-dollar bill.

I give out parking tickets when crime is on the loose,
But we ain't got no criminals in our old calaboose.
With a storm of scandals raging, it surely is a shame,
But we won't let Ben Adamowski break up our poker game.

I hope this trouble's over soon and we can settle down,
And Christmas comes again, for cops, each day in old Chi-town.
Or else, I'll pack my hat and gun and northward I'll set sail,
For all the cops retire young way up in Summerdale.

Well, now my story's over and I have had my say.
Let's separate the crooks from cops, let the chips fall where they may.
Now you've heard my story and you know that I am right,
And if God and the cops be willin', I'll be back tomorrow night.

Ben Adamowski = the State's Attorney of Illinois.
Recorded by Bob Gibson and Bob Camp
on "Gibson & Camp at the Gate of Horn," 1961.
words: Bob Gibson and Bob/Hamilton Camp
tune, "The Unreconstructed Rebel."
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