Chords with lyrics
Big Time Operator:Keith Hampshire.
#5 on Canada RPM on A&M Records in
in 1973.
INTRO: E MajorE
#1.
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I started off a newsboy on a paper.
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For a time I worked in an elevator.
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But all the time I knew that later,
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I would be a higher rater, finally,
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a big time operator.
#2.
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For a while I drove an excavator..
(yes I did.)
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Then I became a wine and brandy waiter.
(yeah.)
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A augmentedA builder, then a decorator, later on,
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an estimator, I'm gonna be a big time
BB
operator..(yeah, yeah!)
INTERLUDE: E MajorE D MajorD G+G
(Oh, ya got to believe in me,
BB
I got ambition, yeah!)
#3.
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I took a job as an airline navigator.
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Then I became a crime investigator.
(yes, I did.)
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For a time, a commentator, then I was an
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administrator, I'm gonna be a big time
BB
operator.
BB
yeah, yeah..yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
E MajorE
yeah, yeah!)
OUTRO:
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Well, don't you know I'm gonna be in the
big time, baby ..a big time operator.
I'll have a whole lotta people workin' for me.
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Gonna have a chauffeur, an upstairs maid..(Woooo!!)
Big limousine, racing sports car, 50 foot yacht,
race horses.
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I'm gonna give new meaning to the word 'big'..yeah!!
A augmentedA big time operator now, now..(Fade.)
A augmentedA seventies smash from Kraziekhat.