Cash Is King

Verse

Drove forty miles to the First State Bank

Boots on the floorboard, tank on empty

Asked the teller for a cashier's check

She just laughed and said they ain't got any

Verse 2

Stood there blinking like a fool in July

Pulled a wrinkled five from my old coat

She said cash is king but they got no cash

Just a stack of deposit slips and a joke

Chorus

Headed back to Boykins with my pockets turned inside out

Headed back to Boykins wondering what that's all about

I got no check no twenty no dime for the road

But the sun still sets on that county road

Pre-Chorus

How's a man supposed to pay

When the bank just gives away

Nothin but a shrug and a sigh

Chorus

Headed back to Boykins with my pockets turned inside out

Headed back to Boykins wondering what that's all about

I got no check no twenty no dime for the road

But the sun still sets on that county road

Banjo Break

Bridge

Paper's just paper and promises break

Daddy always told me that's the way it goes

Put your money in a jar by the kitchen gate

Learn to live with what you're given I suppose

Chorus

Headed back to Boykins with my pockets turned inside out

Headed back to Boykins wondering what that's all about

I got no check no twenty no dime for the road

But the sun still sets on that county road