Big Shot Harmonica Tabs

By: Billy Joel
Key: C

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Well you went up-town
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Rid-ing in your lim-ou-sine
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With your fine Park Av-en-ue clothes
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You had the Dom Per-i-gnon in your hand
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And the spoon up your nose
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Ooh, and when you wake up
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in the morn-ing
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With your head on fi-re
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And your eyes too blood-y to see
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Go on and cry in your cof-fee
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But don’t come bitch-in’ to me

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Be-cause you had to be a big shot,
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Didn’t you
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You had to op-en up your mouth
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You had to be a big shot, didn’t you
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All your friends were so knocked out
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You had to have the last word, last night
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You know what ev-‘ry-thing’s a-bout
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You had to have a white hot spot-light
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You had to be a big shot last night
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Whoa

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Well they were all im-pressed
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with your Hal-ston dress
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And the peo-ple that you knew at E-laine’s
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And the sto-ry of your lat-est suc-cess
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Kept ’em so en-ter-tained
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Aw, but now you just don’t re-mem-ber
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All the things you said
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And you’re not sure that you wan-na know
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I’ll give you one hint, hon-ey
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You sure did put on a show

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Yes, yes, you had to be a big shot,
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Didn’t you
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You had to prove it to the crowd
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You had to be a big shot, didn’t you
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All your friends were so knocked out
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You had to have the last word, last night
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So much fun to be a-round
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You had to have the front page, bold type
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You had to be a big shot last night
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Whoa. Oh, oh whoa Oh, oh whoa
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Oh, oh, oh whoa
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Oh, oh, oh whoa
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It’s no big sin stick your two cents in
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If you know when to leave it a- lone
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But you went ov-er the line
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You could-n’t see it was time to go home
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No, no, no, no, no, no,
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you had to be a big shot,
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Mm, big shot big shot

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You had to op-en up your mouth
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You had to be a big shot, didn’t you
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All your friends were so knocked out
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You had to have the last word, last night
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So much fun to be a-round