
Date of issue: 11.09.2006
Record label: Giant, Warner Records Inc
Song language: English
Tennessee Plates |
I woke up in a hotel and I didn’t know what to do |
I turned the TV on and wrote a letter to you |
The news was talkin' 'bout a dragnet up on the interstate |
Said they were lookin' for a Cadillac with Tennessee plates |
Since I left California baby, things have gotten worse |
Seems the land of opportunity for me is just a curse |
Tell that judge in Bakersfield that my trial will have to wait |
Down here they’re lookin' for a Cadillac with Tennessee plates |
It was somewhere in Nevada, it was cold outside |
She was shiverin' in the dark, so I offered her a ride |
Three bank jobs later, four cars hot wired |
We crossed the Mississippi like an oil slick fire |
If they’d known what we was up to they wouldn’t 'a let us in When we landed in Memphis like original sin |
Up Elvis Presley Boulevard to the Graceland gates |
See we were lookin' for a Cadillac with Tennessee plates |
Well, there must have been a dozen of them parked in that garage |
And there wasn’t one Lincoln and there wasn’t one Dodge |
And there wasn’t one Japanese model or make |
Just pretty, pretty Cadillacs with Tennessee plates |
She saw him singing once when she was seventeen |
And ever since that day she’s been living in between |
I was never king of nothin' but this wild weekend |
Anyway he wouldn’t care, hell he gave them to his friends |
Well this ain’t no hotel I’m writin' you from |
It’s the Tennessee prison up at Brushy Mountain |
Where yours sincerely’s doin' five to eight |
Stampin' out my time makin' Tennessee plates |
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