Andy Shauf – Jerry Was A Clerk (Guitar)

B               F#                     Em
Me and a couple friends, we had a big idea

              C                              A
About getting money and getting out of here

                  Em                  C
We were wide-eyed dreamers of wealth

B               F#                  Em
We were getting tired of killing time

               C                       A
Filling up our heads with cheap wine

                   Em                C
Jerry had a van so we could make our escape

    C          G/B             A7
He would say, 'boys our time has come

   F              Em               Em7        C
To live among the privileged ones'

B                  F#                      Em
Now it was Jerry's plan but we all agreed

              C                              A
Skip town and split the money up evenly

                 Em                    C
Lay low 'til the winter rolled in

B                      F#                        Em
He said 'I know an old farmer doesn't trust the bank

                       C                         A
Keeps his money buried out behind his water tank

                            Em                C
He told me once when he was out of his mind'

     C       G/B     A7
Oh, boys our time has come

   F              Em               Em7        C
To live among the privileged ones

B              F#                     Em
Now Jerry had a girl, the only one of us

               C                           A
To ever have one last and so no questions asked

                    Em              C
She'd be the fourth one involved

B                F#                      Em
Her name was Mary-Anne and she was nice enough

               C            A
Always a cashier, only once in love

               Em                      C
With Jerry - the dreamer and the clerk

           C        G/B     A7
Who said, 'boys our time has come

   F              Em               Em7        C
To live among the privileged ones'

B                F#                     Em
So on that Friday night on which we all agreed

          C                     A
We took our shovels and crept out carefully

             Em                          C
Through the farmyard darker than sin

B            F#                    Em
The plan went off without a hitch

                         C                A
'Til we passed the chicken coop and Mary tripped

                   Em                        C
Turned the hens to sirens in the night

             C         G/B           A7
And when the farmhouse lights turned on

        F         Em     Em7        C
A warning shot rang out into the dawn

       Am                      C
And we ran like hell for Jerry's van

    Am                           C
But when we arrived we were only three

           Am                          C
And while Jerry's greed fed gas to the engine

     Am                               C
His words showed us a coward we'd never seen

            C        G/B    A7
As he said 'Boys our time has come

              F                               Em
We're gonna save ourselves and live among the privileged ones'