Big Time Operator:Keith Hampshire. Top of the charts in Canada in 1973. Also hit the UK and USA charts in '73. #1.(Bright/rock beat.) 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 I would be a higher rater, E A B B7 Finally, 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. E A A builder, then a decorator, E A Later on, an estimator, E A B I'm gonna be a big time operator. B7 (Oh, ya got to believe in me!) #3. E B E I took a job as an airline navigator. E B E E E7 E Then I became a crime investigator.(yes I did.) E A For a time, a commentator, E A Then I was an administrator, E A B I'm gonna be a big time operator. B7 E (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!) #4.**(Spoken ad lib)** 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. Gonna have a chauffeur, an upstairs maid. Big limousine, racing sports car. 50 foot yacht, race horses. I'm gonna give new meaning to the word 'big',\ A big time operator now, now. A seventies smash from Kraziekhat.
