One Piece At A Time (Live 1976)

歌詞

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 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 lunchbox full of gears 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 another 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 Till 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 running just like a song Now the headlights was another sight We had two on the left and one on the right But when we pulled out the switch all three of them 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 tailfin 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 laughing 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 60 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 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 Well it's a 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 Automobile It's a 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 Automobile