One, two, three, four, one,
two, three, four.
When I left Kentucky back in 49,
Went to Detroit workin'
on assembly line,
The first year they had me puttin' wheels
on Cadillacs.
Every day I'd watch
them beauties roll by,
And sometimes I'd hang
my head and cry,
Cause I always wanted me one
that was long and black.
One day I'd devise myself a plan
that should be the envy of most any man
I'd sneak it out of there
in a lunchbox in my hand
Well, getting caught meant getting fired
But I figured I'd have it all
by the time I retired
Hand me a car worth at
least a hundred grand
I'd get it one piece at a time
And it wouldn't cost me a dime
You'll know it's me
when I come through your town
I wanna ride around in style
I wanna drive everybody wild
Cause I have the only one there is around
So the very next day when I
punched in
With my big lunchbox
with help from my friends
I left that day with a lunchbox full of gear
I never considered myself a thief
But GM wouldn't miss
just one little piece
Especially if we strung it out
over several years
Well, the first day I got me a fuel pump
And the next day I got me an
engine and a trunk
And then I got a transmission
and all the chrome
The little things I got in my big lunchbox
Like nuts and bolts and all four shocks
The big stuff we strung out
of my buddy's mobile home
Well, up to now my plan
had went all right
Until we tried to put it all
together one night
And that's when we noticed
that something's definitely wrong
The transmission was a 53
And the motor turned out to be a 73
An d when we tried to put in the bolts
All the holes were gone
So we drilled it out so that it would fit
And with a little bit of help
from an adapter kit
We had that engine runnin'
just like a song
Come on, boy!
Well, about that time, my wife walked out
And I could tell in her eyes
that she had her doubts
And she just opened up the door
and said, Honey, take me for a spin
So I headed on up just to get the tags
And I drove on up the main drag
I could hear everybody laughing
from blocks around
Yeah, but up at the courthouse,
they didn't laugh
Cause to type it up,
it took the whole staff
When we got through,
the title weighed 60 pounds
I got it one piece at a time
And it didn't cost me a dime
You'll know it's me
when I come through your town
I'm gonna ride around in style
I'm gonna drive everybody wild
Cause I'll have the only one
there is around
What's that, Red Rider?
Yeah, this is the Cottonmouth
in the Sack -o -Billy Cadillac,
come on. What's that, Rider?
What model is it?
What model is it?
Well, it's a 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55,
56, 57, 58, 59 automobile.
It's a 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67,
68, 69, 70 automobile.
I've got eight boys, he's in a town,
and it didn't cost me a dime
You'll know it's me
when I come for your town
I'm gonna ride around in style,
I'm gonna drive everybody wild
Cause I'll have the only
one there is around
Well, it's a four -nine -fifty -fifty -one -fifty -two -fifty -three -fifty -four
-fifty -five -fifty -six -fifty -seven -fifty -eight -fifty -nine automobile
It's a sixty, sixty -one, sixty -two, sixty -three, sixty -four, sixty -five,
sixty -six, sixty -seven, sixty -eight, sixty -nine, seventy automobile
I got it one piece at a time,
and it ain't cost me a dime
You'll know it's me
when I come through your town
I'm gonna ride around in style,
I'm gonna drive everybody wild
Well, I'll have the only one
there is around
Cause I'll have the only one
there is around
Cause I'll have the only one there
is around
You
Dan Bern 
