Charlie Robison - Desperate Times guitar chord

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