Speaking in Lyrics

[bovine knievel]

I dunno about no rich little girl
Walkin' around like her papa's got some money

[Clams]

Always told you I'd be comin' back in a Cadillac
More money than anybody else in town

[bovine knievel]

Daddy never was the Cadillac kind
He said some things just glitter and shine
He taught us that love was the one thing money couldn't buy
Daddy never was the Cadillac kind

[Clams]

Eldorado fins, whitewalls and skirts
Rides just like a little bit of heaven here on earth
Well buddy when I die throw my body in the back
And drive me to the junkyard in my Cadillac

[bovine knievel]

Ugh! Yow, RED RYDER
This is the COTTON MOUTH
In the PSYCHO-BILLY CADILLAC Come on

Huh, This is the COTTON MOUTH
And negatory on the cost of this mow-chine there RED RYDER
You might say I went right up to the factory
And picked it up, it's cheaper that way
Ugh!, what model is it?

Well, It's a '49, '50, '51, '52, '53, '54, '55, '56
'57, '58' 59' automobile
It's a '60, '61, '62, '63, '64, '65, '66, '67
'68, '69, '70 automobile.

[beagle001]

Did you hear the '59 Sound coming through on Grandmama's radio?
Did you hear the rattling chains in the hospital walls?
Did you hear the old gospel choir when they came to carry you over?
Did you hear your favorite song one last time?

[one belt loop]

Though you may not drive a great big Cadillac
Gangsta whitewalls
TV antennas in the back
You may not have a car at all
But remember brothers and sisters
You can still stand tall

Just be thankful for what you've got
Though you may not drive a great big Cadillac
Diamond in the back, sunroof top
Diggin' the scene
With a gangsta lean mmm hmmm

[bovine knievel]

Yer gonna have t'sit there and drink yer cup of muddy water
Yer gonna have t'let the blood dry on yer hands

[beagle001]

The late, late nights
The early day jobs
Rust on the strings
Blood on the knobs

I’m still holding onto rock ‘n’ roll
Holding onto rock ‘n’ roll

[Clams]

fingers touching each shiny string
But you let ho of ev'rything,
Drunken angel

[bovine knievel]

How the hell can a person go to work in the morning
And come home in the evening and have nothing to say.

[Clams]

And she understood just what he needed
when he came home every evening
was a couple of beers and a couple of minutes
to cuss about his day.
So she’d fix him a nice hot supper
while he ranted and raved about one thing or the other.
And she never once told him what he was going on about
didn’t add up to a thing

[bovine knievel]

just don't tell me which way I oughta run
or what good I could do anyone
'cause my heart it was a gun
but it's unloaded now
so don't bother

[Clams]

Raise the rifle to my eye
never stop to wonder why

[dime in the gutter]

i can see for miles and miles.....

[LBRod]

Check under his floorboards, Mama,
I don't like his suggestive tone
The way his words drip from his mouth
as he asks can I take you home?
I don't care how many miles I got,
I think I'd rather walk them alone
than to sit in the back seat
as his eyes in the mirror
reduce me to flesh and bone

[Clams]

She'll tell you she's an orphan
after you meet her family

[Clams]

Walk right in it's around the back
Just a half a mile from the railroad track
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant

[Slipkid42]

He was long gone, like a turkey through the corn,
He was long gone, like a turkey through the corn,
Long gone, long gone, he had his long 'jamas on,
He had his long 'jamas on.

[LBRod]

The pyjama people are boring me to pieces
Feel like I am wasting my time
They all got flannel up 'n down 'em
A little trap-door back aroun' 'em
An' some cozy little footies on their mind

[bovine knievel]

Sometimes I get so hungry
Think about pie all day
Just a little whipped cream
Honey, I'm on my way

With a piece of pecan pie
And you that's all I want
Just a piece of pecan pie
And all I want is you

[Smitty]

Rita was sixteen years, hazel eyes and chestnut hair
She really made the Woolworth counter shine
Eddie was a sweet romancer, and a darn good dancer
They'd waltz the aisles of the five and dime

Eddie played the steel guitar, and his mama cried cuz he played in the bars
And kept young Rita out late at night
So they married up in Abilene, lost a child in Tennessee
Still that love survived, 'cause they'd sing

Dance a little closer to me, dance a little closer now
Dance a little closer tonight
Dance a little closer to me, 'cause it's closing time
And love's on sale tonight at this five and dime

One of the boys in Eddie's band took a shine to Rita's hands
So Eddie ran off with the bass man's wife
Oh but he was back by June, singin' a different tune
And sportin' miss Rita back by is side. And he sang...

Dance a little closer to me, dance a little closer now
Dance a little closer tonight
Dance a little closer to me, 'cause it's closing time
And love's on sale tonight at this five and dime

Eddie traveled with the barroom bands till arthritis took his hands
Now he sells insurance on the side
Rita's got a house to keep, writes dimestore novels of a love so sweet
They dance to the radio late at night. And they sing:

Dance a little closer to me, dance a little closer now
Dance a little closer tonight
Dance a little closer to me, hey it's closing time
And love's on sale tonight at this five and dime

Rita was sixteen years, hazel eyes and chestnut hair
She really made the Woolworth counter shine
Eddie was a sweet romancer, and a darn good dancer
And they'd waltz the aisles of the five and dime.

[bovine knievel]

Where's Eddie?

[LBRod]

Eddie, are you kidding?

[bovine knievel]

Ain't nothin' gonna save you
From a love that's blind
You slip to the dark side
Across that line
On the dark side, oh yeah

[Slipkid42]

Just as long as I am in this world
I am the light of this world

[Athens Joe]

Everybody's got a little light under the sun

[beagle001]

May the Good Lord shine a light on you

[Clams]

We all shine on
like the moon and the stars and the sun

[bovine knievel]

It can't be wrong
When it feels so right
'Cause You
You light up my life