One Piece At A Time

Well I left Kentucky back in ’49

And went to Detroit working on assembly line

The first year they had me putting wheels on Cadillac’s

And sometimes I’d hang my head and cry

‘Cause I always wanted me one that was long and black

That should be the envy of most any man

I’d sneak it outta there in a lunch box in my hand

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 around

With my big lunch box and with help from my friends

I left that day with a lunch-box full of gears

But GM wouldn’t miss just one little piece

Especially if I strung it out over several years

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

Then I got me a transmission and all the chrome

Like nuts and bolts and all four shocks

But the big stuff we snuck out in my buddy’s mobile home

Till we tried to put it all together one night

And that’s when we noticed that something was definitely wrong

And the motor turned out to be a ’73

And when we tried to put in the bolts all the holes were gone

And with a little bit of help from an adapter kit

We had that engine running just like a song

We had two on the left and one on the right

But when we pulled out the switch all three of ’em come on

But we put it together and when we got through

Well that’s when we noticed that we only had one tail fin

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

And I headed her right on down main drag

I could hear everybody laughing for blocks around

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 wouldn’t cost me a dime

You’d 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

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