Big Time Operator chords by Keith Hampshire

Big Time Operator:Keith Hampshire.
#5 on Canada RPM on A&M Records in
in 1973.


INTRO: E


#1.
E               B            E
I started off a newsboy on a paper.
E            B               E
For a time I worked in an elevator.
E                  A
But all the time I knew that later,
E            A             E
I would be a higher rater, finally,
A            B
a big time operator.

#2.
E             B          E
For a while I drove an excavator..
(yes I did.)
E               B               E
Then I became a wine and brandy waiter.
(yeah.)
E                 A          E
A builder, then a decorator, later on,
   A          E              A
an estimator, I'm gonna be a big time
B
operator..(yeah, yeah!)




INTERLUDE: E D         G
               (Oh, ya got to believe in me,
                        B
                I got ambition, yeah!)



#3.
E                  B           E
I took a job as an airline navigator.
E               B            E
Then I became a crime investigator.
(yes, I  did.)
E             A            E
For a time, a commentator, then I was an
A              E              A
administrator, I'm gonna be a big time
B
operator.
B
yeah, yeah..yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
      E
yeah, yeah!)



OUTRO:
E
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.
E
Gonna have a chauffeur, an upstairs maid..(Woooo!!)

Big limousine, racing sports car, 50 foot yacht,

race horses.
E
I'm gonna give new meaning to the word 'big'..yeah!!

A big time operator now, now..(Fade.)





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