| My pappy said «Son you’re gonna drive me to drinkin'
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| If you don’t stop driving that Hot Rod Lincoln»
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| Have you heard the story of the hot rod race
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| Where the Fords and the Lincolns were setting the pace?
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| Well that story is true cause I’m here to say
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| I was driving that Model A
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| It’s got Lincoln motor and it’s really souped up
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| And that Model A body makes it look like a pup
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| It’s got eight cylinders, uses 'em all
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| It’s got overdrive, just won’t stall
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| It’s got a four barrel carb, and dual exhaust
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| With four-eleven gears you can really get lost
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| It’s got safety tubes, but I ain’t scared
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| Breaks are good, tires fair
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| Pulling out of San Pedro late one night
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| With the moon and the stars just shining bright
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| We was headed up Grapevine Hill
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| Passing cars like they was standing still
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| All of a sudden, in the wink of an eye
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| A Cadillac sedan passed us by
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| I said «Boys, this ones marked for me»
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| But by then the tail lights was all you could see
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| Now the fellas ribbed me for being behind
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| So I thought I’d let that Lincoln unwind
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| Took my foot off the gas and man, alive
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| I shoved it on down into overdrive
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| Wound it up to 110
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| My speedometer said I hit top end
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| My foot was glued like lead to the floor
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| And that’s all there is, and there ain’t no more
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| Now the boys all thought that I’d lost my sense
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| Those telephone poles were like a picket fence
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| They said «Slow down, I see spots!»
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| The lines on the road just looked like dots
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| Took a corner, side swiped a truck
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| Crossed my fingers just for luck
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| My fenders was clicking the guard rail post
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| The guy beside me was white as a ghost
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| We had smoke coming from out of the back
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| When I started gainin' on that Cadillac
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| I knew I could catch him, I thought I could pass
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| But don’t you know by then we’d be low on gas
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| I had flames coming from out of the side
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| Feel the tension, man what a ride
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| I said «Look out boys, I’ve got a license to fly»
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| And that Caddy pulled over and let us by
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| All of the sudden she started knocking
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| Down in the dips she started rocking
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| I looked in the mirror, red lights were blinking
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| The cops was after my Hot Rod Lincoln
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| Damn
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| The arrested me and they put me in jail
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| Called my pappy to throw my bail
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| And he said «Son, you’re going to drive me to drinkin'
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| If you don’t stop driving that Hot
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| «Rod
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| «Lincoln» |