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Charlie Robison - Desperate Times Lyrics

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  • Jackie went to high school
  • In a little Texas town
  • He finished up and spent the most of next year bummin' around
  • He couldn't find a job to hold
  • So on a Friday night
  • He figured he could see the world and buy a 4-wheel drive
  • If he'd join the army
  • Cause these are desperate times
  • Well he came back four years later
  • A little higher off the ground
  • Things there hadn't changed
  • And that just really got him down
  • So he went off to San Antone
  • An hour to the east
  • And got a job workin' for the San Antone police
  • Well he had a pistol now
  • Cause these are desperate times
  • Well ol Jackie he got married
  • But his ends they wouldn't meet
  • His wife worked at the Texas Commerce Bank just up the street
  • Jackie got an idea
  • To get him outta debt
  • And they could live the good life
  • And drive a new Corvette
  • If he'd rob the bank he said
  • Cause these are desperate times
  • Well he had planned the whole thing
  • And while his baby worked
  • He came in after hours
  • In a black ski mask and shirt
  • She told him where the money was
  • And thats just where he went
  • The minute that he saw it he already had it spent
  • Well it wasn't easy
  • But these are desperate times
  • Well he drove off to Bandera
  • Cause that was his hometown
  • He had it in his mind just where he'd lay that money down
  • He went out to his mom's house
  • And Jack went up the hill
  • To bury that old suitcase full of hundred dollar bills
  • Well he'd let it sit a while
  • Cause these are desperate times
  • Well the bank they called the g-men
  • Cause they were insured by the Fed
  • And Jill she rolled on Jack
  • Cause she was in above her head
  • The g-men gave Jack wind of this
  • When th

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