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Well, I left Kentucky back in '49
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An' went to Detroit workin' on a 'sembly line
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The first year they had me puttin' wheels on cadillacs
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Every day I'd watch them beauties roll by
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And sometimes I'd hang my head and cry
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'Cause I always wanted me one that was long and black.
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One day I devised myself a plan
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That should be the envy of most any man
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I'd sneak it out of there in a lunchbox in my hand
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Now gettin' caught meant gettin' fired
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But I figured I'd have it all by the time I retired
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I'd have me a car worth at least a hundred grand.
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CHORUS
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I'd get it one piece at a time
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And it wouldn't cost me a dime
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You'll know it's me when I come through your town
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I'm gonna ride around in style
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I'm gonna drive ever'body wild
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'Cause I'll have the only one there is around.
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So the very next day when I punched in
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With my big lunchbox and with help from my friends
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I left that day with a lunch box full of gears
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Now I never considered myself a thief
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But GM wouldn't miss just one little piece
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Especially if I strung it out over several years.
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The first day I got me a fuel pump
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And the next day I got me an engine and a trunk
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Then I got me a transmission and all of the chrome
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The little things I could get in my big lunchbox
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Like nuts, an' bolts, and all four shocks
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But the big stuff we snuck out in my buddy's mobile home.
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Now up to now my plan went allright
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'Til we tried to put it all together one night
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And that's when we noticed that something was definitely wrong.
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The transmission was a '53
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And the motor turned out to be a '73
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And when we tried to put in the bolts all the holes were gone.
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So we drilled it out so that it would fit
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And with a little bit of help with an A-daptor kit
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We had that engine runnin' just like a song
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Now the headlight' was another sight
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We had two on the left and one on the right
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But when we pulled out the switch all three of 'em come on.
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The back end looked kinda funny too
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But we put it together and when we got thru
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Well, that's when we noticed that we only had one tail-fin
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About that time my wife walked out
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And I could see in her eyes that she had her doubts
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But she opened the door and said "Honey, take me for a spin."
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So we drove up town just to get the tags
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And I headed her right on down main drag
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I could hear ever'body laughin' for blocks around
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But up there at the court house they didn't laugh
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'Cause to type it up it took the whole staff
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And when they got through the title weighed sixty pounds.
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CHORUS
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I got it one piece at a time
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And it didn't cost me a dime
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You'll know it's me when I come through your town
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I'm gonna ride around in style
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I'm gonna drive ever'body wild
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'Cause I'll have the only one there is around.
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(Spoken) Ugh! Yow, RED RYDER This is the COTTON MOUTH
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In the PYSCHO-BILLY CADILLAC Come on
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Huh, This is the COTTON MOUTH
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And negatory on the cost of this mow-chine there RED RYDER
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You might say I went right up to the factory
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And picked it up, it's cheaper that way
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Ugh!, what model is it
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Well, It's a '49, '50, '51, '52, '53, '54, '55, '56
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'57, '58' 59' Automobile
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(Fade) It's a '60, '61, '62, '63, '64, '65, '66, '67
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'68, '69, '70 Automobile.
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One Piece At A Time
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| Johnny Cash & The Tennessee Th |
