| Stick it up, mister!
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| Can you hear what I’m saying now, yeah
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| Get your hands in the air, sir!
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| And you will get no hurt, mister, no no no
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| I said yeah (I said yeah)
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| Listen what they say (listen what they say)
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| Can you hear me say, yeah? |
| (yeah yeah)
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| Listen what they say (listen what they say)
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| Do you believe I would take such a thing with me
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| And give it to a police man?
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| I wouldn’t do that, oh no (ooh, ooh)
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| I wouldn’t do that (ooh, ooh)
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| And if I do that, I would say «Sir
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| Come on and put the charge on me»
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| I wouldn’t do that (ooh, ooh)
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| I wouldn’t do that (ooh, ooh)
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| I’m not a fool to hurt myself
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| So I was innocent of what they done to me
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| They were wrong (ooh, ooh), oh yeah
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| They were wrong (ooh, ooh)
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| You give it to me one time (huh)
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| You give it to me two times (huh-huh)
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| You give it to me three times (huh-huh-huh)
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| You give it to me four times (huh-huh-huh-huh)
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| 54−46 was my number, was my number, man
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| Right now, someone else has that number
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| 54−46 was my number, well
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| Right now, someone else has that number
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| And I said yeah (I said yeah)
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| Listen what they say (listen what they say)
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| Can you hear me say, yeah? |
| (yeah yeah)
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| Listen what they say (listen what they say)
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| Oh, work could not control me now
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| Oh, no bars could not hold me now
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| They hold I down and they lock-a you way
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| They try to keep I for a year and a day
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| But through the powers of the Most High God
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| Got to turn me lose, I say
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| 54−46 was my number, was my number, man
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| Right now, someone else has that number, well
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| 54−46 was my number, was my number, man
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| Right now, someone else has that numb |