Desperate Times

Charlie Robison Desperate Times written by Charlie Robison Jack he went to high school in a little Texas town He finished up and spent most of the next year bumming round He couldn't find job to hold so on a Friday night He figured he could see the world and buy a four wheel drive If he joined the Army Cause these are desperate times 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 So he went of to San Antone an hour to the east And got a job working for the San Antone police He had a pistol now These are desperate times Old Jackie he got married but his ends just wouldn't meet His wife worked at the Texas Commerce Bank just up the street Jack he got an idea to get him out of debt And they could live a good life and drive a new corvette If he robbed the bank he said These are desperate times He had planned the whole thing and while his baby worked He came in after hours in a black ski mask and shirt She'd told him where the money was and that's just where he went The minute that he saw it he already had it spent Well it wasn't easy But these are desperate times SOLO He drove off to Bandera that was his home town He had it in his mind just where he'd lay that money down He went out to his mom's house Jack went up the hill To bury that old suitcase full of hundred dollar bills He'd let it sit a while Cause these are desperate times The bank they called the g men cause they were insured by the fed Jill she rolled on Jack cause she was in above her head The g men gave Jack wind of this when they made his arrest He asked her why she turned on the one that she loved best Well it wasn't easy Jack These are desperate times Yea ain't that what you always said These are desperate times From Charlie Robison "Bandera" Vireo Records 1995 http://www.texascountrymusic.com/charlie/