One Piece at a Time-Peter Principles

One Piece at a Time

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One Piece at a Time - Peter Principles

Well I left Kentucky back in '49

An' went to Detroit workin' on a 'sembly line

The first year they had me

Puttin' wheels on Cadillacs

Every day I'd watch them beauties roll by

And sometimes I'd hang my head and cry

'Cause I always wanted me one

That was long and black

One day I devised myself a plan

That should be the envy of most any man

I'd sneak it out of there

In a lunchbox in my hand

Now gettin' caught meant gettin' fired

But I figured I'd have it all

By the time I retired

I'd have me a car worth

At least a hundred grand

I'd get it one piece at a time

And it wouldn't cost me a dime

You'll know it's me

When I come through your town

I'm gonna ride around in style

I'm gonna drive everybody wild

'Cause I'll have the only one there is a round

So the very next day

When I punched in

With my big lunchbox

And with help from my friends

I left that day

With a lunch box full of gears

I've never considered myself a thief

But GM wouldn't miss just one little piece

Especially if I strung it

Out over several years

The first day I got me a fuel pump

And the next day I got me an engine and a trunk

Then I got me a transmission

And all of the chrome

The little things I could get in my big lunchbox

Like nuts an' bolts

And all four shocks

But the big stuff we snuck out

In my buddy's mobile home

Now up to now my plan went all right

'Til we tried to put it all together one night

And that's when we noticed

That something was definitely wrong

The transmission was a '53

And the motor turned out to be a '73

And when we tried to put

In the bolts all the holes were gone

So we drilled it out so that it would fit

And with a little bit of help

With an adapter kit

We had that engine runnin' just like a song

Now the headlight' was another sight

We had two on the left and one on the right

But when we pulled out the switch

All three of 'em come on

The back end looked kinda funny too

But we put it together

And when we got through

Well that's when we noticed

That we only had one tail-fin

About that time my wife walked out

And I could see in her eyes

That she had her doubts

But she opened the door and said

"Honey take me for a spin"

So we drove up town just to get the tags

And I headed her right on down main drag

I could hear everybody laughin'

For blocks around

But up there at the court house

They didn't laugh

'Cause to type it up it took the whole staff

And when they got through

The title weighed sixty pounds

I got it one piece at a time

And it didn't cost me a dime

You'll know it's me

When I come through your town

I'm gonna ride around in style

I'm gonna drive everybody wild

'Cause I'll have the only one there is around

Uh 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

Uh 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

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