[00:11.290]Well, I left Kentucky back in '49
[00:14.800]An' went to Detroit workin' on a 'sembly line
[00:16.889]The first year they had me puttin' wheels on cadillacs
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[00:20.999]Every day I'd watch them beauties roll by
[00:23.759]And sometimes I'd hang my head and cry
[00:26.280]'Cause I always wanted me one that was long and black.
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[00:32.200]One day I devised myself a plan
[00:33.660]That should be the envy of most any man
[00:36.700]I'd sneak it out of there in a lunchbox in my hand
[00:40.600]Now gettin' caught meant gettin' fired
[00:43.160]But I figured I'd have it all by the time I retired
[00:45.600]I'd have me a car worth at least a hundred grand.
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[00:49.600]CHORUS
[00:49.610]I'd get it one piece at a time
[00:52.100]And it wouldn't cost me a dime
[00:54.200]You'll know it's me when I come through your town
[00:57.190]I'm gonna ride around in style
[01:01.600]I'm gonna drive everybody wild
[01:03.700]'Cause I'll have the only one there is a round.
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[01:08.800]So the very next day when I punched in
[01:11.610]With my big lunchbox and with help from my friends
[01:14.800]I left that day with a lunch box full of gears
[01:16.370]Now, I never considered myself a thief
[01:21.610]GM wouldn't miss just one little piece
[01:23.250]Especially if I strung it out over several years.
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[01:27.770]The first day I got me a fuel pump
[01:32.180]And the next day I got me an engine and a trunk
[01:34.189]Then I got me a transmission and all of the chrome
[01:37.140]The little things I could get in my big lunchbox
[01:40.140]Like nuts, an' bolts, and all four shocks
[01:43.400]But the big stuff we snuck out in my buddy's mobile home.
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[01:47.240]Now, up to now my plan went all right
[01:49.840]'Til we tried to put it all together one night
[01:51.878]And that's when we noticed that something was definitely wrong.
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[01:56.350]The transmission was a '53
[01:59.300]And the motor turned out to be a '73
[02:01.710]And when we tried to put in the bolts all the holes were gone.
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[02:07.580]So we drilled it out so that it would fit
[02:09.797]And with a little bit of help with an A-daptor kit
[02:11.698]We had that engine runnin' just like a song
[02:13.797]Now the headlight' was another sight
[02:19.379]We had two on the left and one on the right
[02:20.388]But when we pulled out the switch all three of 'em come on.
[02:25.207]The back end looked kinda funny too
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[02:27.819]But we put it together and when we got thru
[02:30.198]Well, that's when we noticed that we only had one tail-fin
[02:34.297]About that time my wife walked out
[02:37.357]And I could see in her eyes that she had her doubts
[02:41.289]But she opened the door and said "Honey, take me for a spin."
[02:44.170]So we drove up town just to get the tags
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[02:48.790]And I headed her right on down main drag
[02:49.188]I could hear everybody laughin' for blocks around
[02:51.988]But up there at the court house they didn't laugh
[02:56.677]'Cause to type it up it took the whole staff
[02:58.658]And when they got through the title weighed sixty pounds.
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[03:03.297]CHORUS
[03:04.189]I got it one piece at a time
[03:05.367]And it didn't cost me a dime
[03:07.897]You'll know it's me when I come through your town
[03:10.728]I'm gonna ride around in style
[03:15.327]I'm gonna drive everybody wild
[03:17.599]'Cause I'll have the only one there is around.
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[03:22.808](Spoken) Ugh! Yow, RED RYDER
[03:25.827]This is the COTTON MOUTH
[03:27.808]In the PSYCHO-BILLY CADILLAC Come on
[03:32.177]Huh, This is the COTTON MOUTH
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[03:34.287]And negatory on the cost of this mow-chine there RED RYDER
[03:38.638]You might say I went right up to the factory
[03:42.470]And picked it up, it's cheaper that way
[03:49.647]Ugh!, what model is it?
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