Hot Rod Lincoln chords by
Commander Cody And His Lost Planet Airmen

1971Country699 views

Key: E major

Intro 1

My pappy said, "Son, you're gonna' drive

me to drinkin'

If you don't stop drivin' that Hot Rod Lincoln"

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Verse 1
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Have you heard this story of the Hot Rod race
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When the Fords and Lincolns
was settin' the pace
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Said story is true, I'm here to say
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I  was drivin' that Model A

Verse 2
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It's got a Lincoln motor and
it's really souped up
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That Model A body makes it look like a pup
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It's got eight cylinders, uses them all
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It's got overdrive, just won't stall

Verse 3

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With a 4-barrel carb and a dual exhaust

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With 4.11 gears you can really get lost

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It's got safety tubes, but I ain't scared

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The brakes are good, tires fair

Verse 4

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Pulled out of San Pedro late one night

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The moon and the stars was shinin' bright

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We was drivin' up Grapevine Hill

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Passing cars like they was standing still

Interlude 1

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Verse 5

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All of a sudden in a wink of an eye

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A Cadillac sedan passed us by

B

I said, "Boys, that's a mark for me!"

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By then the taillight was all you could see

Verse 6

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Now the fellas was ribbin' me for bein' behind

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So I thought I'd make the Lincoln unwind

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Took my foot off the gas and man alive

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I shoved it on down into overdrive

Verse 7

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Wound it up to a hundred-and-ten

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My speedometer said that I hit top end

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My foot was blue, like lead to the floor

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That's all there is and there ain't no more

Verse 8
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Now the boys all thought I'd lost my sense
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And telephone poles looked like
a picket fence
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They said, "Slow down! I see spots!
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The lines on the road just look like dots"

Verse 9

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Took a corner; sideswiped a truck

A

Crossed my fingers just for luck

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My fenders was clickin' the guardrail posts

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The guy beside me was white as a ghost

Interlude 2

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Verse 10

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Smoke was comin' from out of the back

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When I started to gain on that Cadillac

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Knew I could catch him, I thought I could pass

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Don't you know by then we'd be low on gas?

Verse 11

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We had flames comin' from out of the side

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Feel the tension. Man! What a ride!

B

I said, "Look out, boys, I've got a license to fly!"

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And that Caddy pulled over and let us by

Verse 12

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Now all of a sudden she started to knockin'

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And down in the dips she started to rockin'

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I looked in my mirror; a red light was blinkin'

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The cops was after my Hot Rod Lincoln!

Verse 13
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They arrested me and they put me in jail
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And called my pappy to throw my bail
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And he said, "Son, you're gonna'
drive me to drinkin'
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If you don't stop drivin' that Hot Rod Lincoln!

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