Jerry Was A Clerk

B               F#               
Me and a couple friends, we had a
      Em
 big idea
              C                    
About getting money and getting out
          A
 of here
                  Em               
We were wide-eyed dreamers of 
   C
wealth

B               F#               
We were getting tired of killing 
   Em
time
               C                   
Filling up our heads with cheap 
    A
wine
                   Em              
Jerry had a van so we could make 
  C
our escape

[Chorus]
    C          A7sus4            
He would say, ‘boys our time has 
A7
come
   F              Em               
To live among the privileged ones'
Em7        C


[Interlude]
Am Am7  C  Am

[Verse]
B                  F#            
Now it was Jerry’s plan but we 
          Em
all agreed
              C                 
Skip town and split the money up 
             A
evenly
                 Em                
Lay low ’til the winter rolled in
    C


B                      F#  
He said ‘I know an old farmer 
                      Em
doesn't trust the bank
                       C         
Keeps his money buried out behind 
                A
his water tank
                            Em     
He told me once when he was out of 
           C
his mind’

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[Chorus]
     C       A7sus4   A7
Oh, boys our time has come
   F              Em               
To live among the privileged ones
Em7        C


[Interlude]
Am Am7  C  Am

[Verse]
B              F#                
Now Jerry had a girl, the only 
     Em
one of us
               C               
To ever have one last and so no 
            A
questions asked
                    Em             
She’d be the fourth one involved
 C


B                F#              
Her name was Mary-Anne and she 
        Em
was nice enough
               C            A
Always a cashier, only once in love
               Em               
With Jerry - the dreamer and the 
       C
clerk

[Chorus]
           C        A7sus4   A7
Who said, ‘boys our time has come
   F              Em               
To live among the privileged ones’
Em7        C


[Interlude]
Am Am7  C  Am x2

[Verse]
B                F#              
So on that Friday night on which 
       Em
we all agreed
          C                     A
We took our shovels and crept out 
carefully
             Em                    
Through the farmyard darker than 
      C
sin

B            F#                   
The plan went off without a hitch
 Em

                         C         
’Til we passed the chicken coop and
       A
 Mary tripped
                   Em           
Turned the hens to sirens in the 
             C
night

[Chorus]
             C         A7sus4     
And when the farmhouse lights 
    A7
turned on
        F         Em     Em7     
A warning shot rang out into the 
   C
dawn

[Bridge]
       Am                      C
And we ran like hell for Jerry’s van
    Am                          
But when we arrived we were only 
 C
three
           Am                      
And while Jerry’s greed fed gas to 
    C
the engine
     Am                          
His words showed us a coward we’d 
     C
never seen

[Chorus]
            C        A7sus4    A7
As he said ‘Boys our time has come
              F                    
We're gonna save ourselves and live
           Em
 among the privileged ones'