Jerry was a clerk
Andy Shauf
Capo 2
[Verse]
A# F Em
Me and a couple friends, we had a big idea
Em C Am
About getting money and getting out of here
Am Em C
We were wide-eyed dreamers of wealth
A# F Em
We were getting tired of killing time
Em C Am
Filling up our heads with cheap wine
Am Em C
Jerry had a van so we could make our escape
[Chorus]
C Am F
He would say, ‘boys our time has come
F Em
To live among the privileged ones’
[Interlude]
C Am C Am
[Verse]
A# F Em
Now it was Jerry’s plan but we all agreed
Em C Am
Skip town and split the money up evenly
Am Em C
Lay low ’til the winter rolled in
A# F Em
He said ‘I know an old farmer doesn't trust the bank
Em C Am
Keeps his money buried out behind his water tank
Am Em C
He told me once when he was out of his mind’
[Chorus]
C Am F
‘Oh, boys our time has come
F Em
To live among the privileged ones’
[Verse]
A# F Em
Now Jerry had a girl, the only one of us
Em C Am
To ever have one last and so no questions asked
Am Em C
She’d be the fourth one involved
A# F Em
Her name was Mary-Anne and she was nice enough
Em C Am
Always a cashier, only once in love
Am Em C
With Jerry - the dreamer and the clerk
[Chorus]
C Am F
Who said ‘Boys our time has come
F Em
To live among the privileged ones’
[Verse]
A# F Em
So on that Friday night on which we all agreed
Em C Am
We took our shovels and crept out carefully
Am Em C
Through the farmyard darker than sin
A# F Em
The plan went off without a hitch
Em C Am
’Til we passed the chicken coop and Mary tripped
Am Em C
Turned the hens to sirens in the night
[Chorus]
A# Am F
And when the farmhouse lights turned on
F Em
A warning shot rang out into the dawn
[Bridge]
C Am C
And we ran like hell for Jerry’s van
Am C
But when we arrived we were only three
Am C
And while Jerry’s greed fed gas to the engine
Am C
His words showed us a coward we’d never seen
[Chorus]
C Am F
As he said ‘Boys our time has come
F Em
We're gonna save ourselves and live among the privileged ones'