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Jerry Was a Clerk

Jerry Was a Clerk easy guitar chords by Andy Shauf

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Capo
  • B

    2
  • F#

    2
  • Em

  • C

  • A

  • Bm

    2
  • F

  • Am

  • G

  • B

    2
  • F#

    2
  • Em

  • C

  • A

  • Bm

    2
  • F

  • Am

  • G

  • Verse 1
    B
    F#

    Me and a couple friends,

    we had a big idea
    Em
    C

    About getting money

    and getting out of here
    A

    We were wide-eyed dreamers
    Em
    C

    dreamers of wealth
    Verse 2
    B
    F#

    We were getting tired of killing time
    Em
    C

    Filling up our heads with cheap wine
    A
    Em

    Jerry had a van so we could
    C

    make our es cape
    Verse 3
    C

    He would say,
    Em
    Bm
    A

    "boys our time has come
    F
    Em

    To live among the privileged
    Interlude 1

    ones"
    C
    Am
    C
    Em
    Am

    Verse 4
    B
    F#

    Now it was Jerry's plan

    but we all agreed
    Em
    C

    Skip town and split the money up evenly
    A
    Em
    C

    Lay low 'til the winter rolled in
    Verse 5
    B
    F#

    He said, "I know an old farmer

    doesn't trust the bank
    Em
    C

    Keeps his money buried out

    behind his water tank
    A

    He told me once when he was
    Em
    C

    out of his mind"
    Verse 6
    C
    Bm
    A

    "Oh, boys our time has come
    F
    Em

    To live among the privileged
    Interlude 2

    ones"
    C
    Am
    C
    Em
    Am

    Verse 7
    B
    F#

    Now Jerry had a girl,
    Em

    the only one of us
    C

    To ever have one last and so
    A

    no questions asked
    Em
    C

    She'd be the fourth one involved
    Verse 8
    B
    F#

    Her name was Mary-Anne and

    and she was nice enough
    Em
    C

    Always a cashier, only once in love
    A
    Em

    With Jerry - the dreamer
    C

    and the clerk
    Verse 9
    C
    Bm
    A

    Who said, "Boys our time has come
    F
    Em

    To live among the privileged ones"
    Interlude 3
    C
    Am

    C
    Em
    Am
    C
    Em

    Am
    G
    C
    Am

    Verse 10
    B
    F#

    So on that Friday night

    on which we all agreed
    Em

    We took our shovels
    C

    and crept out carefully
    A
    Em
    C

    Through the farmyard darker than sin
    Verse 11
    B
    F#

    The plan went off without a hitch
    Em
    C

    'Til we passed the chicken

    coop and Mary tripped
    A
    Em

    Turned the hens to sirens
    C

    in the night
    Verse 12
    C
    Bm
    A

    And when the farmhouse lights turned on
    F

    A warning shot rang out into
    Em

    the dawn
    C
    Verse 13

    Am
    C

    And we ran like hell for Jerry's van
    Am

    But when we arrived we were
    C

    only three
    Am

    And while Jerry's greed

    fed gas to the engine
    C
    Am

    His words showed us
    C

    a coward we'd never seen
    Verse 14
    C
    Bm

    As he said "Boys our time
    A

    has come
    F

    We're gonna save ourselves and
    Em

    live among the privileged ones"

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