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Life ain't nothing but a blending up of all the ups and downs |
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Dammit Elvis, don't you know |
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You made your Mama so proud |
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Before you ever made that record, before there ever was a Sun |
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Before you ever lost that Cadillac that Carl Perkins won |
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Mr. Phillips found old Johnny Cash and he was high |
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High before he ever took those pills and he's still too proud to die |
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Mr. Phillips never said anything behind nobody's back |
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Like 'Dammit Elvis, don't he know, he ain't no Johnny Cash' |
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If Mr. Phillips was the only man that Jerry Lee still would call sir |
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Then I guess Mr. Phillips did all of Y'all about as good as you deserve |
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He did just what he said he was gonna do and the money came in sacks |
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New contracts and Carl Perkins' Cadillac |
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I got friends in Nashville, or at least they're folks I know |
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Nashville is where you go to see if what they said is so |
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Carl drove his brand new Cadillac to Nashville and he went downtown |
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This time they promised him a Grammy |
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He turned his Cadillac around |
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Mr. Phillips never blew enough hot air to need a little gold plated paperweight |
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He promised him a Cadillac and put the wind in Carl's face |
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He did just what he said he was gonna do and the money came in sacks |
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New contracts and Carl Perkins' Cadillac |
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Dammit Elvis, I swear son I think it's time you came around |
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Making money you can't spend ain't what being dead's about |
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You gave me all but one good reason not to do all the things you did |
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Now Cadillacs are fiberglass, if you were me you'd call it quits |
