desperate times chords by
Charlie Robison

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Key: G major•

Intro 1

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Verse 1

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Jackie went to high school

In a little Texas town

He finished up and spent the most of

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next year bummin' around

He couldn't find a job to hold

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So on a Friday night

He figured he could see the world

and buy a 4- wheel drive

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If he'd join the army

Cause these are desperate times

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Verse 2

Well he came back four years later

A little higher off the ground

Things there hadn't changed

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And that just really got him down

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So he went off to San Antone

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An hour to the east

And got a job workin' for

the San Antone police

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Well he had a pistol now

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Cause these are desperate times

Verse 3

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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

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Jackie got an idea

To get him outta debt

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And they could live the good life

And drive a new Corvette

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If he'd rob the bank he said

Cause these are desperate times

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Verse 4

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Well he had planned the whole thing

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And while his baby worked

He came in after hours

In a black ski mask and shirt

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She told him where the money was

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And thats just where he went

The minute that he saw it he

already had it spent

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Well it wasn't easy

But these are desperate times

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Interlude 1

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Verse 5

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Well he drove off to Bandera

Cause that was his hometown

He had it in his mind just where

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he'd lay that money down

He went out to his mom's house

And Jack went up the hill

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To bury that old suitcase full

of hundred dollar bills

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Well he'd let it sit a while

Cause these are desperate times

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Verse 6

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Well the bank they called the g- men

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Cause they were insured by the Fed

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And Jill she rolled on Jack

Cause she was in above her head

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The g- men gave Jack wind of this

When they made his arrest

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And he asked her why she turned

on the one that she loved best

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Well it wasn't easy Jack

But these are desperate times

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Verse 7

Yeah ain't that what you

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always said

Outro 1

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These are desperate times

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