Key: F major•
Verse 1
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Well,
I left Kentucky back in 49
working on assembly lines
and every day I'd watch them
beauties roll by
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
most any man
and now of course getting caught
meant getting fired
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and i'd have me a car
i'd get it one piece at a time
I'm gonna ride around in style
So the very next day
when I punched in
and with help from my friends
I've never considered myself a thief
just one little piece
Well, the first day I got me a fuel pump,
engine in the trunk,
And the little things I could get in
the big lunch box,
the four shocks,
Now, up to now, my plan went all right
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until we tried to put it all together one night,
that something was
You see the transmission was a 1953
So we drilled it out and that wouldn't fit
just like an old song.
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
when we got through
that we only had one tail fin
my buddy's wife came out
so we drove uptown just to get the tags
to the main drag
But up there at the courthouse
they weren't laughing, buddy,
and it took their whole staff
I got in one piece at a time
I'm gonna ride around in style,
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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54, 55, 57, 58, 59 automobile.
but I know it's a Cadillac.
Well, just give me the title, man.
I bought it from Johnny Cash,
That's right, David Allen Coe,
that's my name, yes sir.
I Walked the Line?
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Oh.
The car won't start anyway.
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ChordsF Bb C Cm
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