Todd Snider - Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables

New York Banker

All these years, Arkansas, teachin' at the high school
How was I to know by retirement day
I'd learn a lesson so cruel?
I came to the day I had waited on
Just to find out all the money in our pension was gone
We invested in somethin' called the Abacus Bond
Sold to us by a New York banker

Good things happen to bad people, bad people, bad people
Good things happen to bad people, bad people, bad people

A big time banker from New York City
Came down south one day
Sold our people on the bond
Had our money bettin' on some kinda
Home loans getting' paid
Buy it they say, we were clearly told
This kinda thing was even safer than gold
But later on we found out the bond we'd been sold
Had been set up to fail all along

Good things happen to bad people, bad people, bad people
Good things happen to bad people, bad people, bad people
We'd been set up to fail all along
Though none of our people had ever quite sensed it
Come to find out the bond born to fail'd been built
So that banker could bet his bread against it
When the house market crashed, our retirement did too
Everybody said there was nothing we could do
That banker walked off with a million or two
I'm still teachin' at the high school

Good things happen to bad people, bad people, bad people
Good things happen to bad people, bad people, bad people
Good things happen to bad people, bad people, bad people
Good things happen to bad people, bad people, bad people
Good things happen to bad people, bad people, bad people
Good things happen to bad people, bad people, bad people



Credits
Writer(s): Mike Osheowitz, Todd Snider
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Other Album Tracks

  1. In the Beginning
  2. New York Banker
  3. West Nashville Grand Ballroom Gown
  4. Precious Little Miracles
  5. The Very Last Time
  6. In Between Jobs
  7. Brenda
  8. Too Soon to Tell
  9. Digger Dave's Crazy Woman Blues
  10. Big Finish

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Altri album

  1. Aimless Incorporated: Best of All My Songs
  2. Aimless Records Presents: Cash Cabin Sessions, Vol. 3 (Purple Version)
  3. Aimless Records Presents: Agnostic Hymns and Stoner Fables (Purple Version)
  4. Aimless Records Presents: Crank It, We're Doomed (Purple Version)
  5. Aimless Records Presents: The Devil You Know (Purple Version)
  6. Turn it Up or Turn it Off - from ‘Let’s Go Dancing’ the songs of Drivin n Cryin
  7. Aimless Records Presents: East Nashville Skyline (Purple Version)
  8. Aimless Records Presents: New Connection (Purple Version)
  9. Aimless Records Presents: Happy To Be Here (Purple Version)
  10. Aimless Records Presents: Viva Satellite (Purple Version)

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