Well there's this dance, you ought to know  It's a little somethin' I made up cats  To keep your heads low  See there are lots of sore gangsters  Packin' iron all day  So you learn my two step stay out of their way  Zip gun, zip gun bop  Ya better learn to do it 'fore yer poor heart   stops now  Zip gun, zip gun bop  Well there's flat-foot Louie  Sittin' on his front stoop  He caught five rounds in the belly  He looked like a messed-up bowl of   minestrone soup  Now you take that cat Mugs  He got iced the other day  He could have saved his mama  The dry cleanin' bill my way  Zip gun, zip gun bop  Ya better learn to do it 'fore yer poor heart   stops now  Zip gun, zip gun bop  (spoken)  Hey spinach chin,  Why don't you try on these cement shoes.  Look like they fit you pretty freakin' good.  Now see if you can walk on water puppy, you jackass  (sung)  So now you can see  Zip gun bop was meant to be  Lots of lead flyin'  Lots of lonely gals cryin'  But you can hear them cats shootin'  They're shootin' rat-ta-tat-tat  So you can learn my two step Jack  Or that's that  Zip gun, zip gun bop  Ya better learn to do it 'fore yer poor heart   stops now  Zip gun, zip gun bop  Hey hey  Zip gun, zip gun bop  Ya better learn to do it 'fore yer poor heart   stops now  Oh yeah baby, that zip gun bop