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[00:00.00]Artist: Cash Johnny
[00:04.13]Song: One Piece At A Time
[00:06.10]Album: The Essential Johnny Cash
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[00:11.07]Well, I left Kentucky back in '49
[00:16.11]An' went to Detroit workin' on a 'sembly line
[00:18.55]The first year they had me puttin' wheels on cadillacs
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[00:23.10]Every day I'd watch them beauties roll by
[00:25.86]And sometimes I'd hang my head and cry
[00:28.13]'Cause I always wanted me one that was long and black.
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[00:33.58]One day I devised myself a plan
[00:35.76]That should be the envy of most any man
[00:38.08]I'd sneak it out of there in a lunchbox in my hand
[00:42.16]Now gettin' caught meant gettin' fired
[00:45.26]But I figured I'd have it all by the time I retired
[00:47.16]I'd have me a car worth at least a hundred grand.
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[00:51.07]CHORUS
[00:51.71]I'd get it one piece at a time
[00:53.66]And it wouldn't cost me a dime
[00:56.12]You'll know it's me when I come through your town
[00:59.29]I'm gonna ride around in style
[01:03.07]I'm gonna drive everybody wild
[01:05.80]'Cause I'll have the only one there is a round.
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[01:10.63]So the very next day when I punched in
[01:13.71]With my big lunchbox and with help from my friends
[01:16.18]I left that day with a lunch box full of gears
[01:18.47]Now, I never considered myself a thief
[01:23.71]GM wouldn't miss just one little piece
[01:25.35]Especially if I strung it out over several years.
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[01:29.87]The first day I got me a fuel pump
[01:34.28]And the next day I got me an engine and a trunk
[01:35.58]Then I got me a transmission and all of the chrome
[01:39.24]The little things I could get in my big lunchbox
[01:42.24]Like nuts, an' bolts, and all four shocks
[01:44.69]But the big stuff we snuck out in my buddy's mobile home.
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[01:49.34]Now, up to now my plan went all right
[01:51.94]'Til we tried to put it all together one night
[01:53.98]And that's when we noticed that something was definitely wrong.
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[01:58.45]The transmission was a '53
[02:01.40]And the motor turned out to be a '73
[02:03.81]And when we tried to put in the bolts all the holes were gone.
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[02:09.16]So we drilled it out so that it would fit
[02:11.09]And with a little bit of help with an A-daptor kit
[02:13.08]We had that engine runnin' just like a song
[02:15.90]Now the headlight' was another sight
[02:20.06]We had two on the left and one on the right
[02:22.49]But when we pulled out the switch all three of 'em come on.
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[02:27.31]The back end looked kinda funny too
[02:29.92]But we put it together and when we got thru
[02:32.30]Well, that's when we noticed that we only had one tail-fin
[02:36.40]About that time my wife walked out
[02:39.46]And I could see in her eyes that she had her doubts
[02:41.70]But she opened the door and said "Honey, take me for a spin."
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[02:46.12]So we drove up town just to get the tags
[02:49.57]And I headed her right on down main drag
[02:51.29]I could hear everybody laughin' for blocks around
[02:53.65]But up there at the court house they didn't laugh
[02:58.78]'Cause to type it up it took the whole staff
[03:00.76]And when they got through the title weighed sixty pounds.
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[03:05.04]CHORUS
[03:05.58]I got it one piece at a time
[03:07.47]And it didn't cost me a dime
[03:10.00]You'll know it's me when I come through your town
[03:12.83]I'm gonna ride around in style
[03:17.43]I'm gonna drive everybody wild
[03:19.61]'Cause I'll have the only one there is around.
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[03:24.91](Spoken) Ugh! Yow, RED RYDER
[03:27.93]This is the COTTON MOUTH
[03:29.91]In the PSYCHO-BILLY CADILLAC Come on
[03:34.28]Huh, This is the COTTON MOUTH
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[03:36.39]And negatory on the cost of this mow-chine there RED RYDER
[03:40.74]You might say I went right up to the factory
[03:44.15]And picked it up, it's cheaper that way
[03:51.75]Ugh!, what model is it?
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