Album: Greatest Hits

Hot Rod Lincoln

(asleep at the wheel's version)

My pappy said son you're gonna drive me to drinkin'
If you don't stop drivin' that hot rod Lincoln

Have you heard the story of the hot-rod race
When the Ford and Lincoln was settin' the pace
That storys true I'm here to say
cause I was a drivin' that Model-A

its Got a Lincoln motor and it's really souped up
And that Model-A body makes it look like a pup
its Got eight cylinders'n uses them all
got overdrive just won't stall
with four-barrel carbs and dual exhaust
4-11 gears you can really get lost
Got safety tubes but I ain't scared
the brakes are good the tires fair

We pulled San Pedro late one night
the moon and the stars were shining bright
We was Drivin' up on Grapevine hill
passin' cars like they was standin' still

[ guitar ]

all of a sudden like the wink of an eye
a Cadillac sedan passed us by
I said boys thats the mark for me
by then the taillight was all you could see
Now the fellers ribbed me for bein' behind
So I thought I'd make that old Lincoln unwind
Took my foot off the gas and man alive
I shoved it down into overdrive
Well I wound it up to a hundred and ten
my speedometer said that I hit top end
My foot was glued like lead to the floor,
that's all there is there ain't no more
Now boys thought I'd lost my sense
and The telephone poles looked like a picket fence
They said slow down, I see spots
the lines on the road just looked like dots
We took a corner side swiped a truck
and I crossed my fingers just for luck
My fenders was clickin' the guardrail post
the guy beside me was white as a ghost

[ short guitar instrumental ]

smoke was comin' from outta the back
when I started to gain on that Cadillac
I knew I could catch him and I thought I could pass
don't you know by then we'd be low on gas
I had flames coming from outta the side
you could feel the tension man what a ride
I said look out boys I got a license to fly
and the Cadillac pulled over and let us by
Now all of a sudden she started knockin'
down in the dip it started rockin'
I looked in the mirror a red light was blinkin'
them cops was after my hot rod Lincoln

well They arrested me and they put me in jail
They called my pappy to throw my bail
and He said son you're gonna drive me to drinkin'
If you don't stop drivin' that hot rod Lincoln