Johnny Cash - One Piece at a Time: chords

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Well I left Kentucky back in '49
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And went to Detroit working on assembly line
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The first year they had me putting wheels on Cadillac's
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

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

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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

So the very next day when I punched in
With my big lunchbox, and with help from my friend
I left that day with a lunchbox full of gears
I've never considered myself a thief
But GiM 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, and 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
Until 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 from an a-daptor kit
We had that engine running just like a song
Now the headlights, they 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 kind of funny too
But we put it together and when we got through
Well, that's when we noticed that we only had one tail-fin
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
Because to type it up it took the whole staff
And when they got through the title weighed sixty pounds

Chorus

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Uh, yeah, 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 mochine, there, Red Ryder
You might say I went right up to the factory
And picked it up, it's cheaper that way
Uh, 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