Bound and Gagged by Dana Summers for January 14, 2021

Johnny Cash-One Piece at a Time:

Well, I left Kentucky back in ’49

An’ went to Detroit workin’ on a ’sembly line

The first year they had me puttin’ wheels on Cadillacs

Every day I’d watch them beauties roll by

And sometimes I’d hang my head and cry

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

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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

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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

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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

I’ve never considered myself a thief

But GM wouldn’t miss just one little piece

Especially if I strung it out over several years

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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

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Now, up to now my plan went all right

’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

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So we drilled it out so that it would fit

And with a little bit of help with an adapter kit

We had that engine runnin’ just like a song

Now the headlight’ was another sight