Well I left Kentucky back in '49
An' went to Detroit workin'
on a 'sembly 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 devised 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
Now gettin' caught meant
gettin' fired
But I figured I'd have it all
by the time I retired
I'd have 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'm gonna ride around in style
I'm gonna drive everybody wild
'Cause I'll have the only
one there is around
So the very next day when
I punched in
With my big lunchbox and
with help from my friends
I left that day with a lunchbox
full of gears
Now I never considered
myself a thief
But GM wouldn't miss just
one little piece
Especially if I strung it out
over several years
The first day I got me a
fuel pump
And the next day I got me an
engine and a trunk
Then I got me a transmission
and all the chrome
The little things I could get
in my big lunchbox
Like nuts an' bolts and
all four shocks
But the big stuff we snuck out
in my buddy's mobile home
Now up to now my plan
went all right
'Til we tried to put it all
together one night
And that's when we noticed
that something was
definitely wrong
The transmission was a '53
And the motor turned out
to be a '73
And 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
with an A-daptor kit
We had that engine runnin'
just like a song
Now the headlights
They was another sight
We had two on the left and
one on the right
But when we pulled out
the switch
All three of 'em come on
The back end looked kinda
funny too
But we put it together and
when we got through
Well that's when we noticed
that we only had one tail-fin
About that time my wife
walked out
And I could see in her eyes
that she had her doubts
But she opened the door
and said Honey take me
for a spin
So we drove up town
just to get the tags
And I headed her right on
down main drag
I could hear everybody
laughin' for blocks around
But up there at the courthouse
They didn't laugh
'Cause to type it up
It took the whole staff
And when they got through
The title weighed sixty 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
Ugh yeah Red Ryder
This is the Cotton Mouth
in the Psycho-Billy Cadillac
Come on
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
Ugh what model is it
Well it's a
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It's a
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