Dave Alvin/Rod Hodges
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(Blue Horn Toad Music, BMI/Blowout Music, ASCAP)
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His mama said ¡°Baby, wait for me in the car,¡±
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And she went lookin¡¯ for his daddy inside a bar
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So he sat and let the radio take him far away
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Listenin¡¯ to XPRS and KRLA.
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Plastic silver nine-volt heart
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You click it on and let the music start
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And the radio was his toy
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The radio was his toy.
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Well Rachel was twenty and he was seventeen years old
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Sittin¡¯ in a parked car on a country road
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Runnin¡¯ his fingers through her long black hair
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And the Staples singin¡¯ ¡°Baby, I¡¯ll take you there.¡±
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Plastic silver nine volt heart
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You click it on and let the music start
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And the radio was his toy
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The radio was his toy.
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Doin¡¯ the dishes long after midnight
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Talkin¡¯ about the evenin¡¯ news with his wife
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The baby wakes up and starts to cry
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So they turn the radio on for his lullaby.
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Plastic silver nine volt heart
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You click it on and let the music start
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Plastic silver nine volt heart
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You click it on and let the music start
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And the radio was his toy
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The radio was his toy.
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Plastic silver nine volt heart
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Plastic silver nine volt heart
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You click it on and let the music start.
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Nine Volt Heart
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Dave Alvin |