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Snider |
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All these years, Arkansas, teachin' at the high school |
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How was I to know by retirement day, I'd learn a lesson so cruel ? |
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I came to the day I had waited on just to find out all the money in our pension was gone |
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We invested in somethin' called the Abacus Bond, sold to us by a New York banker. |
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Good things happen to bad people, bad people, bad people |
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Good things happen to bad people, bad people, bad people. |
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A big time banker from New York City came down south one day |
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Sold our people on the bond, had our money bettin' on some kinda home loans getting' paid |
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Buy it they say, we were clearly told this kinda thing was even safer than gold |
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But later on we found out the bond we'd been sold had been set up to fail all along. |
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Good things happen to bad people, bad people, bad people |
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Good things happen to bad people, bad people, bad people. |
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We'd been set up to fail all along though none of our people had ever quite sensed it |
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Come to find out the bond born to fail'd been built so that banker could bet his bread against it |
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When the house market crashed, our retirement did too, everybody said there was nothing we could do |
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That banker walked off with a million or two, I'm still teachin' at the high school. |
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Good things happen to bad people, bad people, bad people |
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Good things happen to bad people, bad people, bad people. |
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Good things happen to bad people, bad people, bad people |
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Good things happen to bad people, bad people, bad people |
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Good things happen to bad people, bad people, bad people. |
