Peanut Butter Conspiracy

@SONG: Peanut Butter Conspiracy

@CHORDS: Mike A. Hall (mhall@moe.coe.uga.edu)

Peanut Butter Conspiracy

By: Jimmy Buffett

1973

Looking back at my hard luck days

I really do have to laugh

Working in a dive for twenty six dollars

Spending it all on grass

We were hungry hard luck heros

Trying just to stay alive

We'd go down to the corner drug

This is how we'd survive

Who's going to steal the peanut butter?

I'll get a can of sardines

Running up and down the aisle of the mini mart

Sticking food in our jeans

We never took more than we could eat

There was plenty left on the rack

We all swore if we ever got rich

We would pay the mini mart back

Yes sir! Yes sir!

We would pay the mini mart back

It was a two man operation

Had it all down on a note

Ricky would watch that big round mirror

And I'd fill up my coat

Then we'd head for the checkout aisle

With a lemon and a bottle of beer

Into to the car, got to make it on home

Supper time's gettin' near

(Repeat chorus)

I guess every good picker has had some hard times

I sure had my share

It's really kind of funny to laugh at it now

But I don't want to go back there

So every now and then when I'm in the grocery

I take a little but not much

You never know when those hard times will hit you

And I don't want to lose my touch

(Repeat chorus)