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Charlie Robison Desperate Times written by Charlie Robison
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Jack he went to high school in a little Texas town
He finished up and spent most of the next year bumming round
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He couldn't find a job to hold, so on a Friday night
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He figured he could see the world and buy a four wheel drive
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If he joined the Army
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Cause these are desperate times
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Well he came back four years later a little higher off the ground
Things there hadn't changes and that just really got him down
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So he went of to San Antone an hour to the east
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And got a job working for the San Antone police
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He had a pistol now
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These are desperate times
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Old Jackie he got married but his ends just wouldn't meet
His wife worked at the Texas Commerce Bank just up the street
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Jack he got an idea to get him out of debt
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And they could live a good life and drive a new corvette
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If he robbed the bank he said
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These are desperate times
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He had planned the whole thing and while his baby worked
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He came in after hours in a black ski mask and shirt
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She'd told him where the money was and that's just where he went
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The minute that he saw it he already had it spent
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Well it wasn't easy
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But these are desperate times
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He drove off to Bandera that was his home town
He had it in his mind just where he'd lay that money down
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He went out to his mom's house Jack went up the hill
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To bury that old suitcase full of hundred dollar bills
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He'd let it sit a while
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Cause these are desperate times
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The bank they called the g men cause they were insured by the fed
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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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He asked her why she turned on the one that she loved best
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Well it wasn't easy Jack
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These are desperate times
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Yea ain't that what you always said
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These are desperate times
