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The Ride [C]
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David Allen Coe
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I was thumbing from Montgomery
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I had my guitar on my back
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When a stranger stopped beside me in an antique Cadillac
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He was dress like 1950
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Half drunk and hollow eyed
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He said its a long walk to Nashville would you like a ride son
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Well I sat down in the front seat
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He turned on the radio
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And them sad old songs coming outta them speakers was solid country gold
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Then I noticed the stranger was ghost white pale
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When I asked him for a light
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And I knew there was something strange about this ride
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[Chorus]
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He said drifter can you make folks cry when you play and sing
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Have you paid your dues?
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Can you moan the blues?
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Can you bend them guitar strings?
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He said boy can you make folks feel what you feel inside?
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'Cause if your big star bound let me warn you it's a long hard ride
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Well he cried just south of Nashville
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And he turned that car around
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He said this is where you get off boy
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I'm goin' back to Alabam
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And as I stepped outta that Cadillac
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I said mister many thanks
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He said you don't have to call me mister mister
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The whole world calls me Hank
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[Chorus]
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