One Piece At A Time Lyrics

Well I left Kentucky back in forty nine
Went to Detroit workin on assembly line
First year there they had me puttin' wheels on Cadillacs
Every day I'd watch them beauties roll by
Sometimes I'd hang my head and cry
Cuz I've always wanted me one that was long and 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

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

So the very next day when I punched in
With a big lunch box and some help from my friends
I left that day with a lunchbox 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
Then the next day I got me an engine and a trunk
Then I got me a transmission and all the chrome
The little things I could get in my big lunch box
Like nuts and bolts and all four shocks
But the big stuff we snuck out in my buddy's mobile home
Now up until now my plan went alright
Till we tried to put it all together one night
And that's when we noticed something was definitely wrong
The transmission was a fifty three
And the motor turned out to be a seventy three
And when we tried to put in the bolts, all the holes were gone
So we drilled it out so it would fit
And with a little bit of help with an adaptor kit
We had that engine runnin', just like a song
Now the headlights was another sight
We had two on the left, and one on the right
And when we pull out the switch, all three of them come on
The back end looked kinda funny too
But we put it together and when we got through
Well that's when we noticed we only had one tail fin
About that time my robot walked out
I could see in its eyes that it had its doubts
But it opened the door and said, "Destroy all humans"
So we drove uptown just to get the tags
And I headed a right down on main drag
And I could hear everyone laughin from blocks around
But up there at the courthouse they didn't laugh
Cuz to type it up it took the whole staff
And when they got through the title weighed sixty pounds

Yeah 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 everybody wild
Cuz I'll have me the only one there is around

"Uh, yeah Red Rider, this *is* the cottonmouth. And the psychobilly cadillic, come on. NO? This IS the cottonmouth, and negatory on the cost of this MOchine there, Red Rider. You might say I went right up to the factory and picked it up, it's cheaper that way! WHAT model is this?"

Well it's a forty-nine, fifty, fifty-one, fifty-two, fifty-three, fifty-four, fifty-five, fifty-six, fifty-seven, fifty-eight, fifty-nine automobile
It's a sixty, sixty-one, sixty-two, sixty-three, sixty-four, sixty-five, sixty-six, sixty-seven, sixty-eight, sixty-nine, seventy-nine automobile