Hot Rod Lincoln-Charlie Ryan

[ti:Hot Rod Lincoln] [ar:Charlie Ryan] [al:100 Ultimate Car Songs - Very Best Drivetime Classics] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Hot Rod Lincoln - Charlie Ryan [00:07.34]Written by：Ryan Stevenson [00:14.69]Well you heard the story [00:15.58]Of the hot rod race that fatal day [00:17.03]When a ford and a mercury went out to play [00:19.36]Well this is the inside story [00:20.54]And I'm here to say [00:21.53]I was the kid that was drivin' that model a [00:23.10] [00:24.71]It's got a lincoln motor and [00:25.76]It's really souped up [00:26.35]And that model a body makes it look like a pup [00:28.34]It's got twelve cylinders uses them all [00:29.91]With an overdrive that just won't stall [00:31.90] [00:33.13]It's got a 4 barrel carb and a dual exhaust [00:34.77]4 11 gears you can really get lost [00:36.49]It's got safety tubes and I'm not scared [00:38.13]The brakes are good and the tires are fair [00:39.90] [00:41.72]We left san pedro late one night [00:43.38]The moon and the stars was shinin' bright [00:44.91]Everything went fine up the grapevine hill [00:46.57]We was passing cars like they was standing still [00:49.13] [00:57.37]And all of a sudden like a flick of an eye [00:58.97]A cadillac sedan had passed us by [01:01.21]The remark was made there's the car for me [01:02.83]But by then the taillight were all [01:04.05]You could see [01:04.75] [01:05.99]Now the fellas ribbed me for bein' behind [01:07.48]So I started to make that lincoln unwind [01:09.00] [01:09.73]I took my foot off the gas and man alive [01:11.33]I shoved it down into overdrive [01:13.55] [01:14.85]Well I wound it up to a 110 [01:16.24]Twisted the speedometer cable off the end [01:18.16]I had my foot feed clear to the floor [01:19.78]Said that's all there is and there ain't no more [01:21.54] [01:22.88]Went around a corner and I passed a truck [01:24.59]I whispered a prayer just for luck [01:26.06]Fenders was clickin' the guardrail posts [01:27.63]The guys beside me were white as a ghost [01:29.44] [01:30.76]I guess they'd thought I'd lost my sense [01:32.22]The telephone poles looked like a picket fence [01:34.53]They said slow down I see spots [01:36.09]The lines on the road just look like dots [01:37.93] [01:39.33]Smoke was rollin' out in the back [01:40.78]When I started gainin' on that cadillac [01:42.52]I knew I could catch him and hoped I could pass [01:44.22]But when I did I'd be short on gas [01:46.03] [01:54.06]Went around a corner with the tires in the side [01:55.86]You could feel the tension man what a ride [01:57.53]I said hold on I've got a license to fly [01:59.49]And a cadillac pulled over and let me by [02:01.18] [02:02.84]And all of a sudden a rod started knockin' [02:04.28]When down in the dips and [02:05.05]She started to rockin' [02:06.21]I look in my mirror and a red light [02:07.55]Was blinkin' [02:08.39]Cops was after my hot rod lincoln [02:10.19] [02:18.70]Well they arrested me and put me in jail [02:20.02]And called my pop to throw my bail [02:22.35]He said son you're gonna drive me to drinkin' [02:24.74]You don't quit drivin' that hot rod lincoln