INTRO: F#m7(11)    Em9 (w/Riff A:) 4x
       G/H         Am  (w/Riff B:) 3x 

G (w/Riff C:)
An operator by the name of Horace 
Em
made a deal with Jake'n Boris 
Am                                                  Am/D
'bout how the flop-house that they ran just had to go 
G
so they planned to have an accident 
Em
pick up the thirty-three per-cent 
Am                                 Am/D
and retire somewhere out of the snow. 
G
They'd figured that the bigger the policy 
Em
the better so sent a letter 
Am                         Am/D
to the company in the know, 
G
under-estimating the endurance 
Em
of the insurance-agents from outa town 
Am                                      Am/D
who'd get their man and throw 'em in clink 

G/H (w/Riff B:)         Am
for the great insurance shake-down rip-off 
G/H                    Am
G/H                    Am
the faked-up take-all slip-off scheme. 

They thought they'd have a fire 
so endeavoured to aquire 
the utensils necessary for the show 
bought blow-lamps, pumps and matches 
fire-lighter sticks in batches 
and retired to the woods with all in tow. 
They'd calculated that the smaller 
the fuss they made the all-the-more 
chance they had of pulling off the stunt 
understimatin' the endurance 
of the insurance agents from outa town 
who always liked their money up-front 
for stopping 

the great insurance shake down rip-off 
the faked-up take-all slip-off scheme 



(w/Riff D:)
F#m7(11)              Em9/H
Thought they'd take a dreamboat journey 
F#m7(11)              Em9/H
to Malasia or Easter Island 
F#m7(11)              Em9/H
teach those natives something useful 
F#m7(11)              Em9/H
diggin' holes with style and status 

Am   Bb
C
The scheme wasn't perfect 
but it didn't seem-to bad 

Am   Bb
C
It had a good chance of working 
and it was the best one they had. 

A/C#(w/Riff B: in A) Hm
The great Insurance shake-down rip-off 
A/C#                Hm
the staked-out make-off baked-up chip-off 
A/C#                Hm
the faked up take-all slip-off scheme. 


But the night before the accident 
Horace had a premonition of the condition 
he'd be in after an arrest 
Boris would double-cross him 
make off with the dough and toss him 
into a pit of crocodiles and foul-pest aargh! 
And he'd be chained down in a cell 
up the hall-way from hell 
and be a subject to crudities to a strainend degree 
and the investore they would stone him 
and that Jake, he would 'phone him 
and inform him that it wouldn't work anyway 
forget it 

the Great Insurance shake-down rip-off
the baked-up make-off break-off slip-off scheme.


GTR. SOLO:  (w/Riff D:)

F#m7(11)      Em9/H

(fade out)






RIFF A:
      F#m7(11)                   Em9/H
||----------------|------------|-------------------|-------------------------||
||----------------|------------|-------------------|-------------------------||
||.---------------|------------|-------------------|------------------------.||
||.-----2-----4---|--2-----4---|--0---2---4---2----|--0---2---4---2---------.||
||----------------|------------|-------------------|-------------------------||
||----------------|------------|-------------------|-------------------------||

RIFF B:
        G/H                        Am
||------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||-----------------3------------|--------------------------------||
||.------4----------------4-----|---2------4------4------2------.||
||.------5----------------------|---2---------------------------.||
||-------5----------------------|---3----------------------------||
||------------------------------|--------------------------------||

RIFF C:
    G                                   Em
||-----------------------------------|------------------------------------|
||-----------------------------------|------------------------------------|
||.----------------------------------|------------------------------------|
||.----------------------------------|--0----0--2----2--4----4--2----0----|
||---5----5--7----7--5----5--7----7--|--2----2--2----2--2----2--2----2----|
||---3----3--3----3--3----3--3----3--|--0----0--0----0--0----0--0----0----|


   Am                                                 Am/D
|-----------------------------------|------------------------------------||
|-----------------------------------|------------------------------------||
|---2----2--4----4--2----2--4----4--|--2----2--4----4--2----2--4----4---.||
|---2----2--2----2--2----2--2----2--|--2----2--2----2--2----2--2----2---.||
|---3----3--3----3--3----3--3----3--|--3----3--3----3--3----3--3----3----||
|-----------------------------------|------------------------------------||

RIFF D:
    F#m7(11)
||----------------------------|-----------------------------|
||--(5)---------(7)-----------|-(5)---------(7)-------------|
||.--6-----6-----6-----6------|--6-----6-----6-----6--------|
||.----4-----4-----4-----4----|----4-----4-----4-----4------|
||-------4-----4-----4-----4--|------4-----4-----4-----4----|
||----------------------------|-----------------------------|



   Em9/H
|----------------------------|-----------------------------||
|--(3)---------(5)-----------|-(7)---------(5)-------------||
|---4-----4-----4-----4------|--4-----4-----4-----4-------.||
|-----4-----4-----4-----4----|----4-----4-----4-----4-----.||
|-------2-----2-----2-----2--|------2-----2-----2-----2----||
|----------------------------|-----------------------------||