Well, I left Kentucky back in '49
And went to Detroit working on a 'sembly line
The first year they had me putting 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 getting caught meant getting 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.
(Chorus:)
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 a round.
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 lunch box full of
gears
Now, I never considered myself a thief
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 of 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
headlight' 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 thru
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 court house they didn't laugh
'Cause to type it up it
took the whole staff
And when they got through the title
weighed sixty pounds.
Chorus
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.
(Spoken)
Ugh! Yow, 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?