I Took Three Bennies and My Semi Truck Won't Start-Commander Cody/His Lost Planet Airmen

[ti:Hot Rod Lincoln] [ar:Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen] [al:Classic Dance: Doo Wop Touch, Vol. 2] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]I Took Three Bennies and My Semi Truck Won't Start - Commander Cody/His Lost Planet Airmen [00:07.29]Written by：Charlie Ryan/W.S. Stevenson [00:14.59]Have you heard this story of the hot rod race [00:16.48]When Fords and Lincolns was settin' the pace [00:18.17]That story is true I'm here to say [00:20.42]I was drivin' that model A [00:21.76] [00:23.98]It's got a Lincoln motor and it's really souped up [00:25.89]That model a body makes it look like a pup [00:27.69]It's got eight cylinders uses them all [00:29.54]It's got overdrive just won't stall [00:31.10] [00:33.39]With a 4 barrel carb and a dual exhaust [00:35.36]With 411 gears you can really get lost [00:37.13]It's got safety tubes but I ain't scared [00:39.10]The brakes are good tires fair [00:40.57] [00:42.71]Pulled out of San Pedro late one night [00:44.67]The moon and the stars was shinin' bright [00:46.41]We was drivin' up grapevine hill [00:48.38]Passing cars like they was standing still [00:50.08] [00:59.50]All of a sudden in a wink of an eye [01:01.30]A Cadillac sedan passed us by [01:03.10]I said boys that's a mark for me [01:04.85]By then the taillight was all you could see [01:06.45] [01:08.49]Now the fellas was ribbin' me for bein' behind [01:10.14]So I thought I'd make the Lincoln unwind [01:12.08]Took my foot off the gas and man alive [01:13.93]I shoved it on down into overdrive [01:15.14] [01:17.97]Wound it up to a hundred and ten [01:19.50]My speedometer said that I hit top end [01:21.22]My foot was glued like lead to the floor [01:23.01]That's all there is and there ain't no more [01:24.59] [01:26.78]Now the boys all thought I'd lost my sense [01:28.52]And telephone poles looked like a picket fence [01:30.34]They said slow down I see spots [01:32.23]The lines on the road just look like dots [01:33.78] [01:35.92]Took a corner sideswiped a truck [01:37.56]Crossed my fingers just for luck [01:39.36]My fenders was clickin' the guardrail posts [01:41.41]The guy beside me was white as a ghost [01:42.85] [01:52.45]Smoke was comin' from out of the back [01:53.98]When I started to gain on that Cadillac [01:55.35] [01:56.07]Knew I could catch him I thought I could pass [01:57.84]Don't you know by then we'd be low on gas [01:59.41] [02:01.24]We had flames comin' from out of the side [02:03.10]Feel the tension man what a ride [02:04.65]I said look out boys I've got a license to fly [02:06.73]And that Caddy pulled over and let us by [02:08.16] [02:10.15]Now all of a sudden she started to knockin' [02:12.29]And down in the dips she started to rockin' [02:14.04]I looked in my mirror a red light was blinkin' [02:15.91]The cops was after my hot rod Lincoln [02:17.41] [02:21.37]They arrested me and they put me in jail [02:23.04]And called my pappy to throw my bail [02:24.71]And he said son you're gonna' drive me to drinkin' [02:26.69]If you don't stop drivin' that hot rod Lincoln