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Jimmy was a farmer with a wife and kid sit right down young fella I'll tell you what he did what he did what he did Looked to the sky for rain and to the church for peace hid from town so he wouldn't see his old friends on the street on the street on the street Sometimes he went hungry to give his kids a meal sometimes he would borrow and sometimes he would steal The bank said "sorry Jimmy.. you didn't stick to the plan if you can't make that land work we'll find someone who can" someone who can someone who can searched his world for answers couldn't find a one Songtexteso he drove down to the pawn shop his wife's diamond for a gun Drove to town in his tractor parked it in the square shot out the bank's front windows like a cockey millionaire a millionaire a millionaire Tipped his cap to the tellers collected everything he owed threw it in fistfuls into the middle of the road of the road of the road Traffic was a'snarlin' coming up over the hill when word got out that it was raining hundred dollar bills cops they came a 'crawlin' sratchin' sunburned heads till they saw Jimmy lying there smiling and dead he was dead good and dead he had turned to a barefoot boy thrust a wad into his hand said "get on home to your mamma now" and then he turned to sand It was July the 2nd that day I forget the year but it couldn't have been that long ago if I'm still standing here still standing here still standing here bought my mamma a new dress that day she never asked me why she was wearing it when we left town said it always made her cry made her cry made her cry Jimmy was a farmer with a wife and kid sit right down young fella I'll tell you what he did what he did what he did Aus Songtexte Mania