The Ride-David Allan Coe

[ti:The Ride] [ar:David Allan Coe] [al:David Allan Coe 17 Greatest Hi] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Ride - David Allan Coe [00:12.33]I was thumbin' from montgomery [00:14.20] [00:15.14]Had my guitar on my back [00:16.45] [00:18.33]When a stranger stopped beside me in an antique Cadillac [00:22.01] [00:22.89]Well he was dressed like 1950 [00:25.95]Half drunk and hollow-eyed [00:27.82] [00:28.58]Said "Its a long walk to Nashville [00:31.20]Would you like a ride son " [00:33.14] [00:40.51]Well I sat down in the front seat and turned on the radio [00:44.70] [00:45.83]Them sad old songs comin' out of them speakers was solid country gold [00:50.45] [00:51.57]And I noticed the stranger was ghost-white pale [00:54.45]When he asked me for a light [00:56.14] [00:57.07]And I knew there was something strange about this ride [01:00.89] [01:02.57]He said "Drifter can ya make folks cry when you play and sing [01:06.45] [01:08.63]Have you paid your dues can you moan the blues [01:11.45]Can you bend them guitar strings " [01:14.26]He said "Boy can you make folks feel what you feel inside [01:18.03] [01:20.04]Cause if you're big star bound let me warn ya its a long hard ride" [01:23.66] [01:31.53]Well he cried just south of Nashville [01:33.72] [01:34.47]And he turned that car around [01:36.19] [01:37.12]He said "This is where you get off boy [01:39.87] [01:40.62]I'm goin' back to Alabam" [01:41.99] [01:43.73]As I stepped out of that Cadillac [01:45.59] [01:46.47]I said "Mr many thanks" [01:48.78] [01:49.46]He said "You don't have to call me Mr Mr [01:52.09]The whole world called me Hank [01:54.60]He said "Drifter can ya make folks cry when you play and sing [01:58.04] [02:00.36]Have you paid your dues can you moan the blues [02:03.23]Can you bend them guitar strings " [02:05.98]He said "Boy can you make folks feel what you feel inside [02:09.60] [02:11.85]Cause if you're big star bound let me warn ya its a long hard ride" [02:15.54] [02:17.48]He said "Drifter can ya make folks cry when you play and sing [02:21.17] [02:23.29]Have you paid your dues can you moan the blues [02:26.17]Can you bend them guitar strings " [02:28.29] [02:28.79]He said "Boy can you make folks feel what you feel inside [02:32.41] [02:34.54]Cause if you're big star bound let me warn ya its a long hard ride" [02:38.10] [02:40.29]If you're big star bound [02:41.66]Let me warn ya its a long hard ride