One Piece At A Time chords by
Johnny Cash

1976Country1.9K views

Key: F major•

Intro 1

F

F

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Bb

Bb

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C

C

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F

F

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F

F

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Verse 1
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Well, I left Kentucky back in forty nine
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An' went to  Detroit workin' on a 'sembly line
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The first year they had me,
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puttin' wheels on Cadillacs
Every day I'd watch them beauties roll by
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And sometimes I'd hang my head and cry
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'Cause I  always wanted me one,
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that was long and black
One day I devised myself a plan
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That should be  the envy of most any man
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I'd sneak it out of there,
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in lunchbox in my hand
Now gettin' caught meant gettin' fired
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But I figured I'd have it all by the time I retired
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I'd have me a car,
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worth at least a hundred grand

Chorus 1
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I'd get it one piece at a time
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And it wouldn't cost me a dime
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You'll 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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F F 
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'Cause I'll have the only one there is around

Verse 2
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So the very next next day when I punched in
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With my big lunchbox,
and with help from my friends
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F F 
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I left that day with a lunch box full of gears
I've never considered myself a thief
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But GM   wouldn't miss just one little piece
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F F 
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Especially if I strung it out over several years
The first day I got me a fuel pump
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And the next day,
I got me an engine and a trunk
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Then I  got me a transmission,
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and all the chrome
The little things I could get in my big lunchbox
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Like nuts, an' bolts, and all four shocks
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But the big stuff we snuck out,
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in my buddy's mobile home

Verse 3
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Now, up to now my plan went all right
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'Til 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 was definitely wrong
The transmission was a fifty three
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And the motor turned out to be,
a seventy three
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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 so that it would fit
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And with a little bit of help,
from an adapter kit
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F F 
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We had that engine runnin' just like a song
Now the headlight' was another sight
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We had two on the left and one on the right
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But when we pulled out the switch,
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all three of 'em come on.

Verse 4
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The back end looked kinda funny too
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But we put it together,
and when we got through
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Well, that's when we noticed,
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that we only had one tail-fin
About that time my wife walked out
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And I could see in her eye,
that she had her doubts
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But she opened the door and said
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"Honey, take me for a spin."
So we drove up town just to get the tags
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And I headed her right on down main drag
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I could hear everybody laughin'
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for blocks around
But up there at the court house,
they didn't laugh
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'Cause to type it up it took the whole staff
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And when they got through,
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the title weighed sixty pounds

Chorus 2
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I got it one piece at a time
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And it didn't cost me a dime
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You'll 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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F F 
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'Cause I'll have the only one there is around

Interlude 1
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Ugh! Yeah, RED RYDER
This is the COTTON MOUTH
In the PSYCHO-BILLY CADILLAC Come on
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Huh, This is the COTTON MOUTH
And negatory on the cost,
of this mow-chine there RED RYDER
You might say I went right up to the factory
And picked it up, it's cheaper that way
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Ugh!, what model is it?

Outro 1
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Well, It's '49, '50, '51, '52, '53, '54, '55, '56
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'57, '58' 59' automobile
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It's a '60, '61, '62, '63, '64, '65, '66, '67
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F F 
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'68, '69, '70 automobile
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