INTRO ?  Cm7 /  Ab 7M / Bb2  add 6 / Cm7 Repeat

Cm7
The big man arrives
Gm74               Cm7/Ab
Disco dancers greet him
                       Cm7/F                 
Plainclothes cops greet him
                            Cm7/Ab          Cm7/Bb
Small town, big man, fresh lipstick glistening
Cm7
Sophomore jive
Gm74                   Cm7/Ab
From victims of typewriters
                            Cm7/F                
The band sounds like typewriters
          Cm7/Ab                  Cm7   Dm7/C
The big man he's not listening      Ooh  Ooh etc
Cm7/Ab
His eyes hold Edith
                      G74  G7
His left hand holds his right
                    Eb7M
What does that hand desire
Cm7/Ab             G74  G7
That he grips it so tight


Edith in the ring
The passed-over girls are conferring
The man with the diamond ring is purring
All claws for now withdrawn
One by one they bring
His renegade stories to her
His crimes and his glories to her
In challenge they look on
Women he has taken grow old too soon
He tilts their tired faces
Gently to the spoon


Edith in his bed
A plane in the rain is humming
The wires in the walls are humming
Some song-some mysterious song
Bars in her head
Beating frantic and snowblind
Romantic and snowblind
She says-his crime belongs
Edith and the Kingpin
Each with charm to sway
Are staring eye to eye
They dare not look away
You know they dare not look away

CODA  Cm7 /  Ab 7M / Bb2  add 6 / Cm7 Repeat