{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":784914,"song":"Big Time Operator","artist":"Keith Hampshire","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11592028-big-time-operator-chords-by-keith-hampshire/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/784914?type=chord","rating":0.17304,"votes":0,"content":"Big Time Operator:Keith Hampshire.\r\nTop of the charts in Canada in 1973.\r\nAlso hit the UK and USA charts in '73.\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 1](Bright/rock beat.)\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]               [ch]B[/ch]            [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI started off a newsboy on a paper.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]            [ch]B[/ch]               [ch]E[/ch]\r\nFor a time I worked in an elevator.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBut all the time I knew that later,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI would be a higher rater,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]          [ch]A[/ch]            [ch]B[/ch]    [ch]B7[/ch]\r\nFinally, a big time operator.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]             [ch]B[/ch]          [ch]E[/ch]\r\nFor a while I drove an excavator.(yes I did.)[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]               [ch]B[/ch]               [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThen I became a wine and brandy waiter.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                 [ch]A[/ch]\r\nA builder, then a decorator,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]\r\nLater on, an estimator,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]              [ch]A[/ch]            [ch]B[/ch]\r\nI'm gonna be a big time operator.[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]B7[/ch]\r\n(Oh, ya got to believe in me!)[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                  [ch]B[/ch]           [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI took a job as an airline navigator.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]               [ch]B[/ch]            [ch]E[/ch]      [ch]E[/ch]   [ch]E7[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThen I became a crime investigator.(yes I  did.)[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nFor a time, a commentator,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]               [ch]A[/ch] \r\nThen I was an administrator,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]              [ch]A[/ch]            [ch]B[/ch]\r\nI'm gonna be a big time operator.[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]B7[/ch]                                              [ch]E[/ch]\r\n(yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!)[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 4].**(Spoken ad lib)**\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nWell, don't you know I'm gonna be in the big time baby?[/tab]\r\n\r\nA big time operator...\r\n\r\nI'll have a whole lotta people workin' for me.\r\n\r\nGonna have a chauffeur, an upstairs maid.\r\n\r\nBig limousine, racing sports car.\r\n\r\n50 foot yacht, race horses.\r\n\r\nI'm gonna give new meaning to the word 'big',\\\r\n\r\nA big time operator now, now.\r\n\r\n\r\nA seventies smash from Kraziekhat.","plain_text":"Big Time Operator:Keith Hampshire.\nTop of the charts in Canada in 1973.\nAlso hit the UK and USA charts in '73.\n\n\n[Verse 1](Bright/rock beat.)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 4].**(Spoken ad lib)**\n\n\nA big time operator...\n\nI'll have a whole lotta people workin' for me.\n\nGonna have a chauffeur, an upstairs maid.\n\nBig limousine, racing sports car.\n\n50 foot yacht, race horses.\n\nI'm gonna give new meaning to the word 'big',\\\n\nA big time operator now, now.\n\n\nA seventies smash from Kraziekhat.","chords":["E","B","A","B7","E7"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"B":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,2,3,4,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,4,2]},"B7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,1,3,0,4],"frets":[-1,2,1,2,0,2]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]},"E7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,0,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,0,1,0,0]}}}