Cadillac Ranch - Chris LeDoux

There she sits, buddy, just a-gleaming in the sun There to greet a working man when his day is done I'm gonna pack my pa and I'm gonna pack my aunt I'm gonna take 'em down to the Cadillac Ranch Eldorado fins, whitewalls and skirts Drive just like a little bit of heaven here on Earth So when I die, buddy, throw my body in a bag Take me to the junkyard in my Cadillac Cadillac, Cadillac Long and dark, shiny and black Open up them engines, let 'em roar Tearing up the highway like a big old dinosaur James Dean in your Mercury '49 Junior Johnson's drivin' in the woods of Carolina Even Burt Reynolds in a black Trans Am Are gonna meet me down at the Cadillac Ranch Cadillac, Cadillac Long and dark, shiny and black Open up them engines, let 'em roar Tearing up the highway like a big old dinosaur Well, I said, hey, little girlie in the blue jeans so tight Drivin' all alone in a Colorado night You're my last love, baby, you're my last chance Don't let 'em take me down to the Cadillac Ranch Cadillac, Cadillac Long and dark, shiny and black Open up them engines, let 'em roar Tearing up the highway like a big old dinosaur Cadillac, Cadillac Long and dark, shiny and black Open up them engines, let 'em roar Tearing up the highway like a big old dinosaur Ah, play that fill, son Come on Ah, yeah, come on, now, now

There she sits buddy just a-gleamin' in the sun There to greet a workin' man when his day is done I'm gonna pack my pa, and I'm gonna pack my aunt I'm gonna take 'em down to the Cadillac ranch El dorado fins, white walls and skirts Drives just like a little bit of heaven here on Earth So when I die, buddy, throw my body in the back Take me to the junkyard, in my Cadillac Cadillac, Cadillac Long and dark, shiny and black Open up them engines, let 'em roar Tearin' up the highway like a big ol' dinosaur James Dean in a Mercury '49 Junior Johnson's runnin' in the woods of Caroline Even Burt Reynolds in a black Trans Am I'm gonna meet 'em down at the Cadillac ranch Cadillac, Cadillac Long and dark, shiny and black Open up them engines, let 'em roar Tearin' up the highway like a big ol' dinosaur Hey little girlie in the blue jeans so tight Driving all alone in a Colorado night You're my last love, baby, you're my last chance Let 'em take me down to the Cadillac ranch Cadillac, Cadillac Long and dark, shiny and black Open up them engines, let 'em roar Tearin' up the highway like a big ol' dinosaur Cadillac, Cadillac Long and dark, shiny and black Open up them engines, let 'em roar Tearin' up the highway like a big ol' dinosaur

Hey baby! Cadillac, Cadillac take me home I would rather sit there all alone Then watch you run around this dancefloor light With everybody but me just ain't right Cadillac, Cadillac take me home I'd rather play games on my G4 phone Than watch you flirt at the bar all damn night With everybody but me girl it just ain't right Right, what you do to a man falling all over you Right, right what you say Making me dance alone that way Now I do what I can, but when it comes to women I don't understand So, I, I'm out of here Call yourself a cab, watch my Cadillac disappear Hey baby! Cadillac, burn the mac's on the tube Think I'm gonna spend my night with you She wouldn't know a good thing like I said If I hit her from behind upside the head Cadillac, do I lack what it takes? Every time I love seems my heart breaks I'd rather sit all night there see the outer space Than lose another part of me to another pretty face Right, what you do to a man falling all over you Right, right what you say Making me dance alone that way Now I do what I can, but when it comes to women I don't understand So, I, I'm out of here Call yourself a cab, watch my Cadillac disappear Hey baby I'll be alright now Hey baby I'll be alright now Right, what you do to a man falling all over you Right, right what you say Making me dance alone that way Now I do what I can, but when it comes to women I don't understand So, I, I'm out of here Call yourself a cab, watch my Cadillac disappear Hey baby I'll be alright now, baby Hey baby I'll be alright now, baby

We made camp along Red River Watch the cattle as they bedded down Back at the wagons right after supper Spreaded bed rolls on the ground Me and Willie, we took the night guard And the sage never smelled so sweet The prairie moon was blazing silver No chance tonight for a stampede We rode Yonder off in the distance Towards the mountains there in the west Then I see lightening and I hear thunder My mind is weary, I could use some rest Then all at once the wind shifts directions The clouds roll in behind the tumble weeds These longhorn cattle are getting restless God help us all if they stampede Smell the rain and hear the thunder The midnight sky turns black as death Lightening crashes, smell the sulfur It's rank and strong as Satan's breath The cattle rise up and go runnin' I spur my pony on to take a lead And across the heard I can hear Willie yelling "Hey stampede" Dust clouds rise as the rain falls They mix together, turn the air to mud I feel the long horns brush against me And I can feel the demons racing through my blood Then all at once, my pony stumbles We hit the ground, I rise up to my knees In a flash a light I can see the cattle coming Lord I know I'm gonna die in this stampede Then I wait and I look around me I'm in my bed roll and I'm laying on the ground Over there's a wagon and there's the campfire I was only dreaming but what's that sound? Then I feel the earth tremble underneath me As the midnight sky begins to bleed And from the blackness I can hear Willie yelling "Hey stampede"

I was a new kid on the circuit, gold buckles in my eyes But the horse I drew was plenty rank, much to my surprise I did a double backflip, and landed on my head This old cowboy limped out in the arena, leaned over me, and said "You gotta cowboy up when you get throwed down Get right back in the saddle as soon as you hit the ground You've heard that the tough get going when the going gets tough Around here, what we say is, boy, you better cowboy up" By the end of my last season, they said I was among the best So I proudly called a girl back home, hopin' she would be impressed But her mama said she married a guy that I used to call my friend But before the first tear could fall, these words came back again You gotta cowboy up when you get throwed down Get right back in the saddle as soon as you hit the ground You've heard that the tough get going when the going gets tough Around here, what we say is, boy, you better cowboy up Well, it's not an easy lesson to learn in life and love But it's the only way to go whenever you bite the dust You gotta cowboy up when you get throwed down Get right back in the saddle as soon as you hit the ground You've heard that the tough get going when the going gets tough Around here, what we say is, boy, you better cowboy up Around here, what we say is, boy, you better cowboy up

I was born in a hurry but there wasn't any place to go Nowhere fast seemed better than nowhere slow I never really got the hang of hanging around Oh when you get down to it I guess I always knew it What it is that makes my world go round It's a matter of horsepower For eight seconds or miles per hour That's the way I am and that's a fact I can't ignore Yea, big boy legged, fuel injected Running wild, radar detected Man can always stand a little bit more Horsepower Well the view looks better from ahead than it looks behind I've got a need to speed and I don't mean the drugs-store kind Some people like a life that barely moves at all I say more power to them Then I fly right through 'em 'Til it slows down to a crawl It's a matter of horsepower For eight seconds or miles per hour That's the way I am and that's a fact I can't ignore Yea, big boy legged, fuel injected Running wild, radar detected Man can always stand a little bit more Horsepower Then I think about horsepower For eight seconds or miles per hour It's the way I am and it's a fact I can't ignore Yea, big boy legged, fuel injected Running wild, radar detected Man can always stand a little bit more Horsepower I've been thinkin' about horsepower For eight seconds or miles per hour It's the way I am and it's a fact I can't ignore Yea, big boy legged, fuel injected Running wild, radar detected Man can always stand a little bit more Horsepower