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Verse 1
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Well,
I left Kentucky back in 49
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and I went to Detroit
working on assembly lines
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and the first year they had me
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putting wheels on Cadillacs
and every day I'd watch them
beauties roll by
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and sometimes I'd just hang
my head and cry
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because I always wanted me one that was long
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and black well one day i devised myself a plan
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that should be the envy of
most any man
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because i sneak it out of there
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in a lunchbox in my hand
and now of course getting caught
meant getting fired
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but i figured i'd have it all
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and i'd have me a car
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worth at least a hundred grand
i'd get it one piece at a time
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it would cost me a dime
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when I came through your town
I'm gonna ride around in style
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I'm gonna drive everybody wild
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because I'll have the only
So the very next day
when I punched in
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with my big lunch box
and with help from my friends
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I left that day with a lunch
I've never considered myself a thief
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but GM wouldn't miss
just one little piece
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and especially if I strung
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it out over several years.
Well, the first day I got me a fuel pump,
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and the next day I got me an
engine in the trunk,
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and then I got me a transmission
And the little things I could get in
the big lunch box,
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like nuts and bolts and all
the four shocks,
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but the big stuff I snuck out
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in my buddy's mobile home.
Now, up to now, my plan went all right
Bb
until we tried to put it all together one night,
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and that's when we noticed
that something was
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definitely they were on.
You see the transmission was a 1953
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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
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all the holes were gone.
So we drilled it out and that wouldn't fit
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an d then we took a little bit of this
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a little bit of that made an adapter kit
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and when the engine running
just like an old song.
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Of course the headlights
they were another side
left and one on the right
the switch all three came on
and the back end looked kind of funny too
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but we put it together
when we got through
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well that's when we noticed
that we only had one tail fin
my buddy's wife came out
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and I could see she had her doubts
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David Allen take me for a spin
so we drove uptown just to get the tags
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and I headed her right down
to the main drag
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because I could hear everybody laughing
But up there at the courthouse
they weren't laughing, buddy,
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because they had to type it up
and it took their whole staff
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and when they got through the title
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weighed about 60 pounds.
I got in one piece at a time
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and it didn't cost me a dime
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and you don't know it's me
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when I come through your town.
I'm gonna ride around in style,
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I'm gonna drive everybody wild,
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Cause I'll have the only
Yeah, hey, uh, Big Man Cash,
this is old
Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy here
Yeah, I've got that psychedelic Cadillac
that you had made a few years ago
Yeah, you remember that one,
picked it up one piece at a time
What's that?
Oh yeah, I know I had trouble
getting it retitled
in Tennessee here too
They asked me what year it was,
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I said, well, it's a 49, 59, 51, 52, 53,
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54, 55, 57, 58, 59 automobile.
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It's a 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66,
but I know it's a Cadillac.
Well, just give me the title, man.
I bought it from Johnny Cash,
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Johnny Cash, C -A -S -H,
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you know, the man in black?
That's right, David Allen Coe,
that's my name, yes sir.
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Yes, I did sing that song,
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the perfect country song.
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What? Why didn't I sing,
I Walked the Line?
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I did sing, I Walked the Line.
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Oh.
The car won't start anyway.
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