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Well I left Kentucky back in '49
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Went to Detroit working on assembly lines
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The first year they had me puttin' wheels on Caddillacs
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Every day I watched them beauties roll by
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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 that should be the envy of most any man
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I'd sneak it out of there in a lunch box in my hand
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Now, gettin' caught meant gettin' fired
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But I figured I'd have it by the time I retired
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So I'd get me a car worth at least a hundred grand
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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 was me when I come through your town
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I'm gonna drive around in style
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I'm gonna drive everybody 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 lunch box and the help of my friend
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I left that day with a lunch box full of gear
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I've 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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So the first day I got me a fuel pump
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The next day I got me an engine and a trunk
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Then I got me a transmission and all the chrome
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Little things I could get in my big lunch box
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Like nuts and bolts and all four shocks
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But the big stuff we snuck out in my buddies mobile home
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Now, up to now, my plan went all right
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Till we tried to put it all together one night
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And that's when we noticed that somethin' was definitely wrong
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The transmission was a '53
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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 from my adapter kit
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We had that engine runnin' just like a song
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And now the headlights they was another sight
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We had two on the left and one on the right
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And when we pulled out the switch all three of them went on
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The back end looked kinda funny too
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But we put it together and we got through
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Well that's when we noticed we only had one tail fin
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Yeah and about this time my wife walked out
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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 right down the main drag
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I could hear everybody 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 took the whole staff
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And when we got through the title weighed 60 pounds
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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 everybody wild
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Cause I have the only one there is around
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Uh, yeah, Red-rider, this is the Cottonmouth in the psycho-billy-Cadillac, come on
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This is the Cottonmouth, negatory on the cost of this machine there
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Red-rider, you might say I went right up to the factory and picked it up
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Yeah, it's cheaper that way
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(Woooo, what is it, Michelle?) Aw, what model is it?
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It is a '49,'50,'51,'52,'53,'54,'55,'56,'57,'58,'59 automobile
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It is a '60,'61,'62,'63,'64,'65,'66,'67,'68,'69,'70 automobile
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It is a '71,'72,'73,'74,'75,'76,'77,'78,'79...
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One Piece At A Time
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| Michelle Shocked |
