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I woke up in a hotel and I didnt know what to do |
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I turned the tv on and wrote a letter to you |
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The news was talkin bout a dragnet up on the interstate |
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Said they were lookin for a cadillac with tennessee plates |
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Since I left california baby, things have gotten worse |
| [00:50.00] |
Seems the land of opportunity for me is just a curse |
| [00:53.00] |
Tell that judge in bakersfield that my trial will have to wait |
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Down here theyre lookin for a cadillac with tennessee plates |
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It was somewhere in nevada, it was cold outside |
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She was shiverin in the dark, so I offered her a ride |
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Three bank jobs later, four cars hot wired |
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We crossed the mississippi like an oil slick fire |
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If they‘d known what we was up to they wouldn’t a let us in |
| [01:24.00] |
When we landed in memphis like original sin |
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Up elvis presley boulevard to the graceland gates |
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See we were lookin for a cadillac with tennessee plates |
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Well, there must have been a dozen of them parked in that garage |
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And there wasn’t one lincoln and there wasn’t one dodge |
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And there wasn’t one japanese model or make |
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Just pretty, pretty cadillacs with tennessee plates |
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She saw him singing once when she was seventeen |
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And ever since that day she’s been living in between |
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I was never king of nothing but this wild weekend |
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Anyway he wouldnt care, hell he gave them to his friends |
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Well this ain’t no hotel I’m writin you from |
| [02:41.00] |
It’s the tennessee prison up at brushy mountain |
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Where yours sincerelys do in five to eight |
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The stamp out my time making tennessee plates |
