Tablature one piece at a time - Johnny Cash

          



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  Date: 8/28/96; 10:30:16 AM

  From: ah827@rgfn.epcc.Edu (Gene L. Graham)

  Subject: ONE PIECE AT A TIME

  

  

  ONE PIECE AT A TIME

  Recorded by Johnny Cash

  Written by W. Kemp

  

  [F] Well, I left Kentucky back in '49

  An' [Bb] went to Detroit workin' on a 'sembly line

  The C] first year they had me puttin' wheels on cadil- [F] lacs

  Every day I'd watch them beauties roll by

  And [Bb] sometimes I'd hang my head and cry

  'Cause I [C] always wanted me one that was long and [F] 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.

  

  CHORUS                                               

  [F] I'd get it one piece at a time

  And it [Bb] wouldn't cost me a dime

  You'll [C] know it's me when I come through your [F] town

  I'm gonna ride around in style

  I'm gonna [Bb] drive ever'body wild

  'Cause I'll [C] have the only one there is a-[F] 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

  Now I 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 allright

  '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 A-daptor 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 thru

  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 ever'body 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.

  

  CHORUS                            

  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 ever'body wild

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

  

  (Spoken) Ugh! Yow, RED RYDER This is the COTTON MOUTH

  In the PYSCHO-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

  Ugh!, what model is it

  

  [F] Well, It's a '49, '50, '51, '52, [Bb] '53, '54, '55, '56

  [C] '57, '58' 59' Automo-[F] bile

  (Fade) It's a '60, '61, '62, '63, [Bb] '64, '65, '66, '67

  [C] '68, '69, '70 Automo-[F] bile.

  

  

                           


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 One piece at a time, de Johnny cash 

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