Jerry Was A Clerk-Andy Shauf

[ti:Jerry Was A Clerk] [ar:Andy Shauf] [al:The Bearer of Bad News] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.00]Me and a couple friends we had a big idea [00:03.76]About getting money and getting out of here [00:06.97]We were wide-eyed dreamers of wealth [00:09.58] [00:13.12]We were getting tired of killing time [00:16.08]Filling up our heads with cheap wine [00:18.93]Jerry had a van so we could make our escape [00:22.40] [00:23.95]He would say 'boys our time [00:26.61]Has come to live among the privileged ones' [00:34.78] [00:49.03]Now it was jerry's plan but we all agreed [00:51.66]Skip town and split the money up evenly [00:54.40] [00:54.91]Lay low 'til the winter rolled in [00:57.19] [01:01.00]He said "i know an old farmer [01:02.53]Doesn't trust the bank [01:03.76]Keeps his money buried out [01:05.31]Behind his water tank [01:06.94]He told me once when [01:08.09]He was out of his mind" [01:09.23] [01:11.83]'Oh boys our time has come to [01:18.54]Live among the privileged ones' [01:22.79] [01:37.04]Now jerry had a girl the only one of us [01:40.04]To ever have one last [01:41.40]And so no questions asked [01:43.05]She'd be the fourth one involved [01:45.65] [01:48.99]Her name was mary-anne [01:50.36]And she was nice enough [01:51.83]Always a cashier only once in love [01:55.05]With jerry - the dreamer and the clerk [01:57.77] [01:59.99]Who said 'boys our time has [02:03.08]Come to live among the privileged ones' [02:11.13] [02:36.78]So on that friday night on [02:38.76]Which we all agreed [02:39.95]We took our shovels [02:40.88]And crept out carefully [02:42.91]Through the farmyard darker than sin [02:45.12] [02:49.26]The plan went off without a hitch [02:51.83]'Til we passed the chicken [02:53.37]Coop and mary tripped [02:54.68]Turned the hens to sirens in the night [02:57.31] [03:00.24]And when the farmhouse lights turned on [03:03.80] [03:06.57]A warning shot rang out into the dawn [03:10.55] [03:18.46]And we ran like hell for jerry's van [03:22.80] [03:24.63]But when we arrived we were only three [03:28.09] [03:30.19]And while jerry's greed fed gas to the engine [03:34.32] [03:36.46]His words showed us a coward we'd never seen [03:39.96] [03:41.77]As he said "boys our time has come [03:45.89] [03:48.24]We're going to save ourselves and [03:50.37]Live among the privileged ones " [03:53.28]Jerry Was A Clerk - Andy Shauf