Jerry Was A Clerk Chords & Lyrics - Andy Shauf

Capo 2

[VERSE]
[A#]Me and a couple [F]friends, we had a big i[Em]dea
[Em]About getting [C]money and getting out of [Am]here
[Am]We were wide-[Em]eyed dreamers of [C]wealth

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

[CHORUS]
[C]He would say, ‘[Am]boys our time has [F]come
[F]To live among the [Em]privileged ones’

[INTERLUDE]
[C] [Am] [C] [Am]

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

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

[CHORUS]
[C]‘Oh, [Am]boys our time has [F]come
[F]To live among the privileged [Em]ones’

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

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

[CHORUS]
[C]Who said ‘[Am]Boys our time has [F]come
[F]To live among the [Em]privileged ones’

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

[A#]The plan went [F]off without a [Em]hitch
[Em]’Til we passed the chicken [C]coop and Mary [Am]tripped
[Am]Turned the [Em]hens to sirens in the [C]night

[CHORUS]
[A#]And when the f[Am]armhouse lights turned [F]on
[F]A warning shot rang out [Em]into the dawn

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

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