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Well, I left Kentucky back in '49 |
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And went to Detroit workin' on a assembly 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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I'd get it one piece at a time 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, I'm gonna drive everybody wild |
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'Cause I'll have the only one there is around |
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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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I never considered myself a thief |
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But 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 the chrome |
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The little things I could get in my big lunchbox |
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Like nuts and 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 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 adaptor kit |
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We had that engine runnin' just like a song |
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Now the headlight that 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 through |
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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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I'd got it one piece at a time 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, 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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Ah yeah Red Ryder this is the cottonmouth |
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In the pshycho Billy, Cadillac, come on |
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Ah, this is the cottonmouth a negatory |
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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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Ah! What model is it? |
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Well, it's a '49, '50, '51, '52, '53, '54, '55, '56 |
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'57, '58, 59 automobile |
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It's a '60, '61, '62, '63, '64, '65, '66, '67 |
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'68, '69, '70 automobile |
