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.)
I started off a newsboy on a paper.
For a time I worked in an elevator.
But all the time I knew that later,
I would be a higher rater,
Finally, a big time operator.
#2.
For a while I drove an excavator.(yes I did.)
Then I became a wine and brandy waiter.
A builder, then a decorator,
Later on, an estimator,
I m gonna be a big time operator.
(Oh, ya got to believe in me!)
#3.
I took a job as an airline navigator.
Then I became a crime investigator.(yes I did.)
For a time, a commentator,
Then I was an administrator,
I m gonna be a big time operator.
(yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!)
#4.**(Spoken ad lib)**
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.