Tennessee Plates

[00:14.56] I woke up in a hotel, didn't know what to do
[00:17.73] I turned the TV on, wrote a letter to you
[00:20.67] The news was talkin' 'bout a dead man upon the interstate
[00:26.22] Seems they lookin' for a Cadillac with Tennessee plates
[00:35.56] Well since I left California baby, things have gotten worse
[00:38.70] Seems the land of opportunity for me is just a curse
[00:41.97] Tell that judge in Bakersfield, my trial I'll have to wait
[00:47.43] They're lookin' for a Cadillac with Tennessee plates
[00:51.06] It was somewhere in Nevada, it was cold outside
[00:54.06] She was shiverin' in the dark, so I offered her a ride
[00:57.41] Three bank jobs later, four cars hotwired
[01:00.89] We crossed the Mississippi like an oil slick fire, Yeah!
[01:16.93] Yeah If they'd known what we was up to they wouldn't let us in
[01:20.22] Now we landed in Memphis like original sin
[01:23.37] Elvis Presley Boulevard to the Graceland gates
[01:28.22] Oh, see we're lookin' for a Cadillac with Tennessee plates
[01:38.13] Man, there must have been a dozen of them parked in that garage
[01:41.24] There wasn't one Lincoln and there wasn't one Dodge
[01:44.63] Wasn't one Japanese model or make
[01:49.89] Just pretty, pretty Cadillacs' with Tennessee plates
[01:53.79] She saw him singing once when she was seventeen
[01:56.59] And ever since that day she's been living in between
[01:59.86] I was never king of nothin' but that wild weekend
[02:03.26] Anyway he wouldn't care, hell he gave them to his friends
[02:45.43] This ain't no hotel I'm writin' you from
[03:16.14] The Tennessee prison up at Brushy Mountain
[03:24.64] Where yours sincerely's doin' five to eight
[03:29.82] Stampin' out my time makin' Tennessee plates
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