Текст песни One Piece At a Times (Live At The Carter Fold, Hiltons, VA, 1976) - Johnny Cash

(World is something about the life out there in blood
It gives the ball and then you bend
Turn your body ten years old makes you wanna hit the road
Don't wanna joke
And I was no different from every boy
I didn't care how tall the Cotton got her help
How good the picking was
I want to go out and see the world for myself
When I was about eighteen years old
So I put on my five pair five dollar pair of pants
I got a royal riches and I hitch hike
Pontiac machines you gonna knew seen this 1951 Pontiac cars in the junk park
I've made them cars
I didn't ever do this but I thought about it)
Well, I left Kentucky back in '49
And went to Detroit working on assembly line
The first year they had me putting wheels on Cadillacs
Every day I'd watch them beauties roll by
And sometimes I'd hang my head and cry
Always wanted me one that was long and black
But 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 getting caught meant getting fired
But I figured I'd have it all by the time I retired
Have me a car worth at least a 100 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 going to ride around in style
Going to drive everybody wild
Because I'll have the only one there is around
Well the very next day when I checked in
With my big lunchbox, help from my friend
I left that day with a lunchbox 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
Well the first day I got me a fuel pump
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, and bolts, and all four shocks
The big stuff we snuck out in my buddy's mobile home
Well up to now my plan went all right
Until 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
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 from an a-daptor kit
Had that engine running just like a song
The headlights was another sight
We had two on the left and one on the right
But when we pulled out the switch all three of them come on
Well the back end looked kind of funny too
But we put it together and when we got through
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 went up town just to get the tags
And I headed her right on down main drag
Youcould hear everybody laughing for blocks around
But up there at the court house they didn't laugh
Because to type it up it took the whole staff
And when they got through the title weighed sixty pounds
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 going to ride around in style
I'm going to drive everybody wild
Because I'll have the only one there is around
Uh, yeah, Red Ryder?
This is the Cotton Mouth
In the Psycho-Billy Cadillac, come on
Huh?