Prohibition Fun (A Gangster Chronicle)
I was sat on an old Bronx bench, when a man towards me he did come,He said do you want to hear a story, if you let me park my bum.He said he was a gangster, mind you he looked a hundred near years old,This is what he told me how his country was controlled. Alky Phoney - Al Capone He came from Brooklyn in New York, and ran a pub in Chicago,His drinking made him suffer shandies, and his belching was sirocco.Alky Phoney drank alone, as folk avoided his scar,He had the running of the gang, but he ran to the bar. On Valentines day nineteen twenty nine, to a party he did go,He took over the bootlegging racket, to seven gangsters he said cheerio!In Alcatraz, he lapped it up, to the disgrace of the American nation,They couldn’t pin the murders on him, so he drank to tax evasion. Loose Alternee - Louis Alterie` Loose born from French cast, back in California,Walked as if he shit himself and stank of thick ammonia.He wore Colt forty five’s on his waist, and sported a ten gallon hat,But when he strutted in Chicago, he looked a proper twat. He wanted to avenge his pal’s killers, by a shootout in the street,But this would give the feds a field day, so off to Colorado with cold feet.He testified against “Bottles” Capone, Alky’s older brother,And was gunned down in the shadows, by a hitman undercover. Matching Gun Gerry - Machine Gun Kelly Matching Gun Gerry, from Memphis he did hail,It took the feds almost forty years to put this fool in jail.He kidnapped an oil baron, to collect two hundred thousand dollars,With all that money in his hand, he earned more than any scholars. Gerry didn’t realize that the baron collected information,Which led the feds to the gangster, through a precise imagination.He had a Tommy gun in each hand, compare and contrast caused confusion,But when the feds lead him away, his arrest was no illusion. Scabbie Face Hates Sun - Baby Face Nelson Illinois is where he came from, he killed and robbed for fun,He always did it in the shade as his face broke out in the sun.One day whilst undercover, his face too young and pale,He opened a washroom window and sprung Lone Villager from the jail. He holds a shootout record, for killing most feds in one fiery rout,But ran away and hid himself just as the sun came out.It was at this battle where sadly Scabbie met his match,He died at the battle of Barrington and his face had not a scratch. Lone Villager - John Dillinger Yet another from Illinois, Lone Villager had a gang,They robbed loads of banks and police stations and all the media sang.They painted him as Robin Hood, but suppose that’s what they should,And flaunted all his criminality in town but it didn’t do him any good. He escaped from jail twice and hid in a knocking shop,But Ana Cumpanas snitched on him which lead to him getting shot.The feds moved in on the theater where Villager was leaving soon,No more flaunting in the streets again, all alone the silly buffoon. Lugsy Seagul - Bugsy Siegel Lugsy Seagul a Jewish American but didn’t have a big nose,Stuck his beak into everything but had big ears I suppose.He was charismatic and handsome, on the front page of every mag,A bootlegger first then turned gambler, he had the dollars in the bag. He traveled across to Vegas, The Flamingo Club he ran,It didn’t make the mob any money so his downfall, it began.He sat with a goon in a room reading the Los Angeles Times,Was hit through the head and in his back, by a hitman for his crimes. Nose Fed Scratchy - Joseph Valachi Nose Fed came from Harlem, a suburb in New York,Got the feds to protect him and God knows, he can talk.He bludgeoned a suspected hitman to death with a pipe inside a cloth,And Nose Fed was itching to tell all, if the feds can let him off. He feared Vito Genevese, an enforcer who shared the prison,Put the word out for this traitor, who sliced the Mafia with precision.Nose Fed claimed to the feds that every prisoner is what he fears,And told of Vito’s Mafia kiss on the cheek but also bit his ears. Stay Fresh Bananas -Joseph Bonanno Bananas the only one from Sicily, was involved in work in Italy,Jumping back to New York from Italy where he was initially.He started as a bootlegger, became a loan shark then ran some prostitution,In fact he ran a lot of real estate and factory institutions. He owned a funeral parlor in Brooklyn where Stay Fresh had a plan,They say he could make folk disappear, a special Mafia business man.Enemies that had been whacked, ended up in here getting measured,The Mafia brought them to stay fresh, and he buried them in the desert. Lonely And Hide - Bonnie and Clyde Lonely and Hide robbed liqueur stores whilst traveling across the states,No one could catch them, they changed their number plates.Lonely was all alone until Hide showed his face,And Hooch Methane tagged along, the three were such a disgrace. Hooch told his dad that Lonely and Hide were coming for a visit,He phoned the feds and set up an ambush that was implicit.They came across the broken truck, a dirty trick it must be said,A six man posse lead by Ranger Hamer machine gunned the couple dead. Witty Girl Annoyed - Pretty Boy Floyd Witty Girl a handsome guy that dressed in shirts and slacks,With rosy cheeks and raised eyebrow, hit banks in numerous attacks.The feds had gutsy machine guns and Witty Girl a forty five,Is it any wonder they were not taking him alive. It started on the seventeenth of June nineteen thirty three,The Kansas City massacre four feds dead, he had to flee.He was enemy number one as Villager got taken out,In thirty four it ended in a field by a sniper, was killed beyond some doubt. Now thank you for the seat young man, I hope you enjoyed my stories,Crime it seems doesn’t pay, it’s when you die you get the glories.But always keep your nose clean and never dabble in this shit,My name is Lovely Look Piano and today you wont be hit. Bernie Logue.