| 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 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 |
Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Carl Perkins' Cadillac , by - Drive-By Truckers. Song from the album The Dirty South, in the genre Иностранный рок