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 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

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  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

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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