Hot Rod Lincoln

My pappy said, "Son, you 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
 Where the Fords and the Lincolns were settin' the pace
 That story's true I'm here to say
 'Cause I was a drivin' that Model A
 It's got a Lincoln motor and it's really souped up
 That Model A body makes it look like a pup
 It's got eight cylinders and uses them all
 It's got overdrive, just won't stall
 With a four barrel carb and a dual exhaust
 With 4:11 gears you can really get lost
 Got safety tubes, but I ain't scared
 The brakes are good, the tires fair
 Pulled outta San Pedro late one night
 The moon and the stars were shinin' bright
 We was drivin' up Grapevine Hill
 Passin' cars like they was standin' still
 ♪
 All of a sudden, in the wink of an eye
 A Cadillac sedan passed us by
 I said boys that's the mark for me
 By then the taillight was all you could see
 Now the fellas ribbed me for bein' behind
 So I thought I'd make the Lincoln unwind
 Took my foot off the gas and man alive
 I shoved it on down into overdrive
 Wound it up to hundred and ten
 My speedometer said that I'd hit top end
 Had my foot glued like lead to the floor
 That's all there is, and there ain't no more
 Now the boys all thought that I'd lost my sense
 Them telephone poles looked like a picket fence
 They said, "Slow down, I see spots"
 The lines on the road just looked like dots
 Took a corner, sideswiped a truck
 Crossed my fingers just for luck
 My fenders was clickin' the guardrail posts
 The guy beside me was white as a ghost
 ♪
 Smoke was comin' from outta the back
 When I started to gain on that Cadillac
 Knew I could catch him; I thought I could pass
 Don't ya know by then we'd be low on gas
 We had flames comin' from out of the side
 You could feel the tension, man what a ride
 I said, "Look out boys, I got a license to fly"
 And that Caddy pulled over and let us by
 Now all of a sudden a she starts to knockin'
 Down in the depths she started to rockin'
 I looked in the mirror and a red light was blinkin'
 The cops was after my hot rod Lincoln
 They arrested me and they put me in jail
 And 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"