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Lyr Req: Hot Rod Lincoln

Matthew B. 04 Oct 99 - 05:26 PM
Lonesome EJ 04 Oct 99 - 05:58 PM
Roger in Baltimore 04 Oct 99 - 06:03 PM
katlaughing 04 Oct 99 - 06:08 PM
katlaughing 04 Oct 99 - 06:09 PM
Joe Offer 04 Oct 99 - 06:13 PM
Roger in Baltimore 04 Oct 99 - 06:16 PM
Roger in Baltimore 04 Oct 99 - 09:45 PM
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Subject: Hot Rod Lincoln
From: Matthew B.
Date: 04 Oct 99 - 05:26 PM

BAck in the summer of 1973, there was a hit song with the lyrics:

My daddy said son
You're gonna drive me to drinkin'
If you don't stop ridin' that
Hot rod Lincoln

Anybody have all the lyrics?


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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hot Rod Lincoln
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 04 Oct 99 - 05:58 PM

Have you heard the story bout the hot-rod race
where the Fords and Lincolns were settin the pace
That story's true, I'm here to say
I was drivin that Model A

We were drivin down Grapevine Hill
passin cars like they were standin still...

Maybe some Commander Cody fan can patch in the rest.

LEJ


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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hot Rod Lincoln
From: Roger in Baltimore
Date: 04 Oct 99 - 06:03 PM

The lyrics are available at Lyrics World, a great site for Top 40 lyrics like this. To get specifically to the song try clicking here.

Enjoy the song.

Roger in Baltimore


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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hot Rod Lincoln
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Oct 99 - 06:08 PM

One of my favourites! Here ya go, courtesy of Lyrics World:

HOT ROD LINCOLN
COMMANDER CODY AND THE LOST PLANET AIRMEN
My pappy said, "Son, you're gonna' drive me to drinkin'
If you don't stop drivin' that Hot Rod Lincoln."
Have you heard this story of the Hot Rod Race
When Fords and Lincolns was settin' the pace.
That story is true, I'm here to say
I was drivin' that Model A.
It's got a Lincoln motor and it's really souped up.
That Model A Vitimix makes it look like a pup.
It's got eight cylinders; uses them all.
It's got overdrive, just won't stall.
With a 4-barrel carb and a dual exhaust,
With 4.11 gears you can really get lost.
It's got safety tubes, but I ain't scared.
The brakes are good, tires fair.
Pulled out of San Pedro late one night
The moon and the stars was shinin' bright.
We was drivin' up Grapevine Hill
Passing cars like they was standing still.
All of a sudden in a wink of an eye
A Cadillac sedan passed us by.
I said, "Boys, that's a mark for me!"
By then the taillight was all you could see.
Now the fellas was ribbin' me for bein' behind,
So I thought I'd make the Lincoln unwind.
Took my foot off the gas and man alive,
I shoved it on down into overdrive.
Wound it up to a hundred-and-ten
My speedometer said that I hit top end.
My foot was blue, like lead to the floor.
That's all there is and there ain't no more.
Now the boys all thought I'd lost my sense
And telephone poles looked like a picket fence.
They said, "Slow down! I see spots!
The lines on the road just look like dots."
Took a corner; sideswiped a truck,
Crossed my fingers just for luck.
My fenders was clickin' the guardrail posts.
The guy beside me was white as a ghost.
Smoke was comin' from out of the back
When I started to gain on that Cadillac.
Knew I could catch him, I thought I could pass.
Don't you know by then we'd be low on gas?
We had flames comin' from out of the side.
Feel the tension. Man! What a ride!
I said, "Look out, boys, I've got a license to fly!"
And that Caddy pulled over and let us by.
Now all of a sudden she started to knockin',
And down in the dips she started to rockin'.
I looked in my mirror; a red light was blinkin'
The cops was after my Hot Rod Lincoln!
They arrested me and they put me in jail.
And called my pappy to throw my bail.
And he said, "Son, you're gonna' drive me to drinkin'
If you don't stop drivin' that Hot... Rod... Lincoln!"


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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hot Rod Lincoln
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Oct 99 - 06:09 PM

Jeez, BigRib, took me that long to put in the line breaks. Great minds, I guess, huh?


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Subject: ADD: Hot Rod Lincoln
From: Joe Offer
Date: 04 Oct 99 - 06:13 PM

Click Here for tips from Cowpie on how to play it, but no lyrics. something makes me thing we had a request for this just a few weeks ago and came up with the same thing. this'll take care of it, once and for all.
-Joe Offer-

HOT ROD LINCOLN
(words & music by Charles Ryan & W.S. Sevenson, 1960)
(recorded by Johnny Bond, later by COMMANDER CODY AND THE LOST PLANET AIRMEN- 1972)


My pappy said, "Son, you're gonna' drive me to drinkin'...and the rest is just like Kat and Roger said, but they're faster... (I'll delete all those lyrics I just posted....)


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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hot Rod Lincoln
From: Roger in Baltimore
Date: 04 Oct 99 - 06:16 PM

Well, you'll just have to search for the song. Try under H under Titles, then go to hot, you'll get there.

Roger in Baltimore


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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hot Rod Lincoln
From: Roger in Baltimore
Date: 04 Oct 99 - 09:45 PM

Man, we smashed that request! We were posting so fast we just stepped all over each other. I guess we just get inspired when the lyrics to a great folk song are requested (TIC)!

Way to go, Kat and Joe!

Big RiB


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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hot Rod Lincoln
From: catspaw49
Date: 04 Oct 99 - 10:44 PM

Geez, I check in and first thing , I notice this thread and thought...."What's new on that?"..........Then I read it and realized it was an entirely new thread. True, you all did nail it and RiB it is a great folk song as you say, but Fr. Joebro, your memory banks are slippin'....it's an old age thing, don't feel bad. In any case, here's the other thread where I, like Kat, piddled away time typing while Jeri and Joe did that fancy computer stuff. BTW-there's a neat link in the other thread about Charlie's HOT ROD LINCOLN>

Spaw


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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hot Rod Lincoln
From: Dale Rose
Date: 04 Oct 99 - 11:01 PM

Well, I think by now, credit has been given where credit is due ~~ it is a Charlie Ryan composition, 1960. You can hear a bit of it along with several other CLASSICS on the album Corny Country at CDNow. I'm just going to copy and paste the contents, and hope it all comes out in a form that you can read. All cuts have sound clips.
1. Auctioneer - Leroy Van Dyke
2. The Battle Of Kookamonga - Homer & Jethro
3. Ode To The Little Brown Shack Out Back - Billy Edd Wheeler
4. The Credit Card Song - Dick Feller
5. Chug-A-Lug - Roger Miller
6. Gitarzan - Ray Stevens
7. Don't Go Near The Eskimos - Ben Colder
8. Hot Rod Lincoln - Charlie Ryan
9. When The Ship Hits The Sand - 'Little' Jimmy Dickens
10.Is Zat You, Myrtle? - The Carlisles


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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hot Rod Lincoln
From: Dale Rose
Date: 04 Oct 99 - 11:05 PM

Naw, they've figured out how to keep you from linking to their pages. Seems to me that they'd be glad to get the extra traffic, and maybe the extra sales. It is easy enough though ~~ when the page that they send you to comes up, just change Artist to Album Title, enter Corny Country, and hit Find It. That'll get you there.


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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hot Rod Lincoln
From: Joe Offer
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 02:22 AM

Darn it, Catspaw, I knew there was a thread on that song lately, and I had meant to change the title on your lyrics message so it would show up in a search. It's a good idea for everybody. If you post lyrics or a tune in a thread that doesn't clearly identify the title of the song, just change the "subject" line to ADD LYRICS: name-of-song.
Dale, if you want to link to something you found by searching a site, it's a good idea to right-click on the link that got you to that location, select "copy schortcut," and paste THAT link into your link that you're posting here in the forum.
-Joe Offer-


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