lyrics to a song I used to hear on KROQ

topic posted Wed, June 11, 2008 - 6:19 PM by  Tim
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"come on little Ceasar you can make it
anyway you're going to have to try
don't mess with the big man unless you're prepared to take it
'cause he can dish it out from now until 1999"

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  • Re: lyrics to a song I used to hear on KROQ

    Sat, July 19, 2008 - 5:34 PM
    I don't know too much about Tonio K, but the song comes from an album 'Life in the Foodchain'.

    WILLIE & THE PIGMAN
    (Tonio K.)

    little willie caesar, he was in trouble
    runnin' like a bandit through his longest darkest night
    all that willie lacked, in fact, was a shovel
    then he could have dug himself his own grave
    and saved everybody some time

    because you don't relieve the union boys of their payroll
    not unless you've got an army ready to fight
    and when the union representatives were unavailable
    to reach a suitable agreement
    that's when willie took to flight

    chorus:

    come on little caesar you can make it
    anyway you're going to have to try
    don't you ever tangle with the ruling class
    unless you're prepared to take it
    because they can dish it out from now until 1999

    willie crashed the gate at rosie's cantina
    no, not the one where marty shot that kid
    this place was kinda likea train wreck
    'cept it was cleaner
    everything was either out of order
    or very well hid

    way back in the corner sat the pigman
    champion of the luckless lunchless faceless little folks
    willie he explains the whole situation
    in no time flat the pigman's on the phone

    [chorus]

    next thing willie knows, the whole thing is over
    everybody wants to negotiate
    pigman orders three more glasses of cola
    willie wonders: "how can I repay?"

    pigman says: "if you're ever down around diego
    you can look me up
    you know that I'm not that hard to find"
    and with that he stands and leaves the table
    leaving willie with the check and wondering what was on his mind

    [chorus]

    ©1978 Worthless Music (ASCAP)

    All the best

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