That'll Get You Ten-Jeff Bates

[ti:That'll Get You Ten] [ar:Jeff Bates] [al:Leave The Light On] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]That'll Get You Ten - Jeff Bates [00:13.93]Just two years an' seven days [00:16.58] [00:17.15]Between me an' legal age [00:20.21]Just one clerk in that liquor store [00:22.73] [00:23.49]Between me an' that front door [00:26.66]My coat had deep pockets [00:28.49] [00:29.23]An' he probably had a gun [00:31.84] [00:32.49]Well I reckon he was watchin' 'cause he said [00:36.23]"Son that'll get you one" [00:39.65] [00:41.03]"One year pickin' up trash on the highway [00:44.17]One phone call to hear your momma's heartbreak [00:47.03]If you think it's worth it don't let me stop you son [00:52.08] [00:52.65]'Cause that'll get you one" [00:56.23] [00:59.76]She had a beer in her hand she was comin' on strong [01:02.93]An' I was just this close to takin' her home [01:06.42]Things were lookin' good when we left that bar [01:09.62]Till she stopped an' said "That's my car" [01:12.06] [01:13.43]That's when I saw the sticker [01:15.10] [01:15.74]That said 'Franklin County High' [01:18.23] [01:19.35]Well I didn't even kiss the girl goodbye [01:24.01] [01:24.65]'Cause that'll get you five [01:26.06] [01:27.44]Five years bustin' up rocks on the chain gang [01:30.89]Pound in' and a bang straight plates in the same sink [01:34.05]Wonderin' if I'm ever gonna make it out alive [01:38.71] [01:39.72]An' those tan breaks might get me thinkin' 'bout a jailbreak [01:43.57]Askin' my mom to slip a file in my bun cake [01:46.58] [01:47.09]Those bloodhounds'd probably haul me back in [01:51.35] [01:51.96]An' that's another ten [01:53.17] [02:05.99]Boss man climbin' down my back [02:08.94]Won't cut me one inch of slack [02:12.05]'Tween that steel beam an' the ground below [02:15.18]It'd be a nasty fall if the wind should blow [02:18.49]I don't see a witness an' we're up here awful high [02:24.54]If he should lose his balance [02:26.49]He might not survive [02:29.25] [02:30.25]But that'd get you life [02:31.74] [02:32.97]Pumpin' that iron with the boys on the cell-block [02:36.18]Tyin' my soap to a rope so it don't drop [02:38.82] [02:39.35]An' some ol' boy thinks my biceps look nice [02:44.39] [02:45.82]Writin' to the governor an' beggin' for a pardon [02:49.05]Thinkin' "That's how Merle Haggard got started" [02:52.21]Swappin' cigarettes for momma's apple pie [02:56.91] [02:58.58]Lookin' through the glass an' talkin' to my lawyer [03:02.03]Memorizing Moby Dick an' Tom Sawyer [03:05.01]Tellin' the parole board I learned wrong from right [03:10.25]Yeah that'd get you life yeah that'd get you life