That'll Get You Ten Lyrics - Jeff Bates

Just two years an' seven days 

Between me an' legal age 

Just one clerk in that liquor store 

Between me an' that front door 

My coat had deep pockets 

An' he probably had a gun 

Well, I reckon he was watchin' 'cause he said 

"Son, that'll get you one" 

"One year pickin' up trash on the highway 

One phone call to hear your momma's heartbreak 

If you think it's worth it, don't let me stop you, son 

'Cause that'll get you one" 

She had a beer in her hand, she was comin' on strong 

An' I was just this close to takin' her home 

Things were lookin' good when we left that bar 

Till she stopped an' said, "That's my car" 

That's when I saw the sticker 

That said, 'Franklin County High' 

Well, I didn't even kiss the girl goodbye 

'Cause that'll get you five 

Five years bustin' up rocks on the chain gang 

Pound in' and a bang straight plates in the same sink 

Wonderin' if I'm ever gonna make it out alive 

An' those tan breaks might get me thinkin' 'bout a jailbreak 

Askin' my mom to slip a file in my bun cake 

Those bloodhounds'd probably haul me back in 

An' that's another ten 

Boss man climbin' down my back 

Won't cut me one inch of slack 

'Tween that steel beam an' the ground below 

It'd be a nasty fall if the wind should blow 

I don't see a witness an' we're up here awful high 

If he should lose his balance 

He might not survive 

But that'd get you life 

Pumpin' that iron with the boys on the cell-block 

Tyin' my soap to a rope so it don't drop 

An' some ol' boy thinks my biceps look nice 

Writin' to the governor an' beggin' for a pardon 

Thinkin', "That's how Merle Haggard got started" 

Swappin' cigarettes for momma's apple pie 

Lookin' through the glass an' talkin' to my lawyer 

Memorizing Moby Dick an' Tom Sawyer 

Tellin' the parole board, I learned wrong from right 

Yeah, that'd get you life, yeah, that'd get you life