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Artist: Cash Johnny |
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Song: One Piece At A Time |
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Album: The Essential Johnny Cash |
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Well, I left Kentucky back in '49 |
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An' went to Detroit workin' on a 'sembly line |
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The first year they had me puttin' wheels on cadillacs |
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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 that was long and black. |
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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 in a lunchbox in my hand |
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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 worth at least a hundred grand. |
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CHORUS |
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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 when I come through your town |
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I'm gonna ride around in style |
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I'm gonna drive everybody wild |
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'Cause I'll have the only one there is a round. |
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So the very next day when I punched in |
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With my big lunchbox and with help from my friends |
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I left that day with a lunch box full of gears |
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Now, I never considered myself a thief |
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GM wouldn't miss just one little piece |
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Especially if I strung it out over several years. |
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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 and all of the chrome |
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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 in my buddy's mobile home. |
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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 that something was definitely wrong. |
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The transmission was a '53 |
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And the motor turned out to be a '73 |
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And when we tried to put in the bolts all the holes were gone. |
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So we drilled it out so that it would fit |
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And with a little bit of help with an A-daptor kit |
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We had that engine runnin' just like a song |
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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 all three of 'em come on. |
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The back end looked kinda funny too |
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But we put it together and when we got thru |
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Well, that's when we noticed that we only had one tail-fin |
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About that time my wife walked out |
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And I could see in her eyes that she had her doubts |
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But she opened the door and said "Honey, take me for a spin." |
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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' for blocks around |
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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 the title weighed sixty pounds. |
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CHORUS |
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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 when I come through your town |
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I'm gonna ride around in style |
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I'm gonna drive everybody wild |
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'Cause I'll have the only one there is around. |
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(Spoken) Ugh! Yow, RED RYDER |
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This is the COTTON MOUTH |
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In the PSYCHO-BILLY CADILLAC Come on |
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Huh, This is the COTTON MOUTH |
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And negatory on the cost of this mow-chine there RED RYDER |
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You might say I went right up to the factory |
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And picked it up, it's cheaper that way |
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Ugh!, what model is it? |
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