One Piece At A Time chords by
Dan Bern
Dan Bern

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Key: G major
Verse 1
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One, two, three, four, one,
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two, three, four.
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D

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When I left Kentucky back in 49,
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C
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Went to Detroit workin'
on assembly line,
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The first year they had me puttin' wheels
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on Cadillacs.
Every day I'd watch
them beauties roll by,
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C

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And sometimes I'd hang
my head and cry,
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D

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Cause I always wanted me one
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G

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that was long and black.
One day I'd devise myself a plan
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C

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that should be the envy of most any man
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D

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I'd sneak it out of there
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in a lunchbox in my hand
Well, getting caught meant getting fired
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C

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But I figured I'd have it all
by the time I retired
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D

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Hand me a car worth at
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G

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least a hundred grand
I'd get it one piece at a time
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C

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And it wouldn't cost me a dime
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D

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You'll know it's me
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G

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when I come through your town
I wanna ride around in style
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C

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I wanna drive everybody wild
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D

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G
G

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Cause I have the only one there is around
So the very next day when I
D
D

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punched in
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With my big lunchbox
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with help from my friends
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I left that day with a lunchbox full of gear
I never considered myself a thief
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C

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But GM wouldn't miss
just one little piece
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Especially if we strung it out
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over several years
Well, the first day I got me a fuel pump
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C

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And the next day I got me an
engine and a trunk
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D

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And then I got a transmission
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Em
Em

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and all the chrome
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The little things I got in my big lunchbox
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Like nuts and bolts and all four shocks
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The big stuff we strung out
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G

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of my buddy's mobile home
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D

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Well, up to now my plan
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D
D

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had went all right
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C

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Until we tried to put it all
together one night
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And that's when we noticed
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that something's definitely wrong
The transmission was a 53
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And the motor turned out to be a 73
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An d when we tried to put in the bolts
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All the holes were gone
So we drilled it out so that it would fit
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And with a little bit of help
from an adapter kit
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We had that engine runnin'
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just like a song
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D
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G
G

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Come on, boy!
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Well, about that time, my wife walked out
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And I could tell in her eyes
that she had her doubts
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And she just opened up the door
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and said, Honey, take me for a spin
So I headed on up just to get the tags
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And I drove on up the main drag
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I could hear everybody laughing
from blocks around
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Yeah, but up at the courthouse,
they didn't laugh
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C
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Cause to type it up,
it took the whole staff
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When we got through,
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the title weighed 60 pounds
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I got it one piece at a time
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C

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And it didn't cost me a dime
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D

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You'll know it's me
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G

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when I come through your town
I'm gonna ride around in style
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C

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I'm gonna drive everybody wild
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Cause I'll have the only one
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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?
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Well, it's a 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55,
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56, 57, 58, 59 automobile.
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It's a 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67,
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G
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D
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68, 69, 70 automobile.
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I've got eight boys, he's in a town,
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and it didn't cost me a dime
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D

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You'll know it's me
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when I come for your town
I'm gonna ride around in style,
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C

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I'm gonna drive everybody wild
D
D

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Cause I'll have the only
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one there is around
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Well, it's a four -nine -fifty -fifty -one -fifty -two -fifty -three -fifty -four
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G
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-fifty -five -fifty -six -fifty -seven -fifty -eight -fifty -nine automobile
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C
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It's a sixty, sixty -one, sixty -two, sixty -three, sixty -four, sixty -five,
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G
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sixty -six, sixty -seven, sixty -eight, sixty -nine, seventy automobile
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G
G

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I got it one piece at a time,
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and it ain't cost me a dime
D
D

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You'll know it's me
G
G

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when I come through your town
I'm gonna ride around in style,
C
C

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I'm gonna drive everybody wild
D
D

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Well, I'll have the only one
G
G

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there is around
D
D

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Cause I'll have the only one
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G

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there is around
D
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Cause I'll have the only one there
C
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G
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C
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D
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G
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is around
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D
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G
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