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ROBBERY, ASSAULT, AND BATTERY
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The streets were deserted though the police were alerted,
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They considered the phone call a hoax.
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Furtively glancing then jauntily prancing
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The youth caught the guards unaware.
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Slipping between them he ought to have seen then
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The eyes and their owner so near.
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With torch shining bright he strode on in the night
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Till he came to the room with the safe.
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"Hello son, I hope you're having fun."
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"You've got it wrong Sir, I'm only the cleaner."
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With that he fired, the other saying as he died,
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"You've done me wrong," it's the same old song forever.
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Robbery, assault and battery,
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The felon and his felony.
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He picked up the diamonds and bundles of fivers
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He pushed them well down in his sack.
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But the alarm had been sounded, he was completely surrounded
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But he had some more tricks up his sleeve.
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"Come outside with your hands held high."
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"You'll not get me alive Sir, I promise you that Sir.
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With that he fired, the other saying as he died
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"You've done me wrong," it's the same old song forever.
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Robbery, assault and battery,
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The felon and his felony.
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"He's leaving via the roof, the bastard's got away.
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God always fights on the side of the bad man."
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"I've got clean away but I'll be back some day,
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Just the combination will have changed.
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Some day they'll catch me, to a chain they'll attach me,
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But until that day I'll ride the old crime wave.
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If they try to hold me for trial
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I'll stay out of aol by paying my bail
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And after I'll go to the court of appeal saying
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"You've done me wrong," it's the same old song forever."
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Done me wrong - same old song - done me wrong.
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ROBBERY, ASSAULT, AND BATTERY
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