One Piece at a Time Chords by Johnny Cash & Tennessee Three

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[Intro]
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[Verse]
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Well I left Kentucky back in 'fortynine
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An' went to Detroit workin' on a 'sembly line
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The first year they had me puttin' wheels on Cadillacs
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Every day I'd watch them beauties roll by
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And sometimes I'd hang my head and cry
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'cause I always wanted me one that was long and black
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One day I devised myself a plan
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That should be the envy of most any man
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I'd sneak it out of there in a lunchbox in my hand
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Now gettin' caught meant gettin' fired
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But I figured I'd have it all by the time I retired
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I'd have me a car worth at least a hundred grand


[Chorus]
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I'd get it one piece at a time
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And it wouldn't cost me a dime
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You'll know it's me when I come through your town
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I'm gonna ride around in style
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I'm gonna drive everybody wild
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'cause I'll have the only one there is around


[Verse]
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So the very next day when I punched in
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With my big lunchbox and with help from my friends
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I left that day with a lunch box full of gears
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I've never considered myself a thief
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But GM wouldn't miss just one little piece
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Especially if I strung it out over several years
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The first day I got me a fuel pump
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And the next day I got me an engine and a trunk
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Then I got me a transmission and all the chrome
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The little things I could get in my big lunchbox
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Like nuts an' bolts and all four shocks
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But the big stuff we snuck out in my buddy's mobile home
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Now up to now my plan went all right
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'til we tried to put it all together one night
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And that's when we noticed that something was definitely wrong
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The transmission was a 'fiftythree
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And the motor turned out to be a 'seventythree
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And when we tried to put in the bolts all the holes were gone
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So we drilled it out so that it would fit
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And with a little bit of help with an adapter kit
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We had that engine runnin' just like a song
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Now the headlight' was another sight
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We had two on the left and one on the right
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But when we pulled out the switch all three of 'em come on
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The back end looked kinda funny too
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But we put it together and when we got through
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Well that's when we noticed that we only had one tailfin
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About that time my wife walked out
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And I could see in her eyes that she had her doubts
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But she opened the door and said Honey take me for a spin
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So we drove up town just to get the tags
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And I headed her right on down main drag
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I could hear everybody laughin' for blocks around
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But up there at the courthouse they didn't laugh
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'cause to type it up it took the whole staff
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And when they got through the title weighed sixty pounds


[Chorus]
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I got it one piece at a time
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And it didn't cost me a dime
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You'll know it's me when I come through your town
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I'm gonna ride around in style
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I'm gonna drive everybody wild
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'cause I'll have the only one there is around
    F             
Ugh Yeah Red Ryder


[Verse]
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This is the Cotton Mouth
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In the Psycho Billy Cadillac come on
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Huh This is the Cotton Mouth
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And negatory on the cost of this mowchine there Red Ryder
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You might say I went right up to the factory
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And picked it up it's cheaper that way
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Ugh what model is it
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Well It's a  'fortynine 'fifty 'fiftyone 'fiftytwo 'fiftythree 'fiftyfour 'fiftyfive
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'fiftysix'fiftyseven 'fiftyeight' fiftynine' automobile
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It's a 'sixty 'sixtyone 'sixtytwo 'sixtythree 'sixtyfour 'sixtyfive 'sixtysix 'sixtyseven
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'sixtyeight 'sixtynine 'seventy automobile


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