Tennessee Plates-Mark Collie

[ti:Tennessee Plates] [ar:Mark Collie] [al:Tennessee Plates] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Tennessee Plates - Mark Collie [00:08.76]I woke up in a hotel [00:17.20]Didn't know what to do [00:18.57]I turned the TV on [00:19.88]Wrote a letter to you [00:21.38]The news was talkin' 'bout [00:22.63]A dead man upon the interstate [00:24.27]Seems they were lookin' [00:27.77]For a Cadillac with Tennessee plates [00:30.08] [00:32.02]Well since I left California [00:36.96]Baby things have gotten worse [00:38.52]Seems the land of opportunity [00:40.21]For me is just a curse [00:41.77]Tell that judge in Bakersfield [00:42.96]My trial'll have to wait [00:44.65]Down here they're lookin' [00:48.02]For a Cadillac with Tennessee plates [00:50.20]It was somewhere in Nevada [00:51.71]It was cold outside [00:53.09]She was shiverin' in the dark [00:54.77]So I offered her a ride [00:56.34]Three bank jobs later [00:57.58]Four cars hot wired [00:59.46]We crossed the Mississippi [01:00.52]Like an oil slick fire [01:02.52] [01:08.96]Now if they'd known what we was [01:10.59]Up to they wouldn't let us in [01:12.46]And now we landed [01:13.34]In Memphis like original sin [01:15.15]Elvis Presley Boulevard [01:16.52]To the Graceland gates [01:18.02]See we were lookin' for a Cadillac [01:22.27]With Tennessee plates [01:23.46] [01:35.40]Well there must have been a dozen [01:36.96]Of them parked in that garage [01:38.53]There wasn't one Lincoln [01:39.71]And there wasn't one Dodge [01:40.98]There wasn't one [01:42.35]Japanese model or make [01:44.35]Just pretty pretty Cadillacs [01:48.41]With Tennessee plates [01:49.92]She saw him singing once [01:51.85]When she was seventeen [01:53.11]And ever since that day [01:54.72]She's been living in between [01:56.17]I was never king of nothin' [01:57.61]But this wild weekend [01:59.11]Anyway he wouldn't care [02:00.61]Hell he gave them to his friends [02:02.48]This ain't no hotel [02:09.35]I'm writin' you from [02:10.79]Now it's a Tennessee [02:15.23]Prison up at Brushy Mountain [02:17.17]Where yours sincerely's [02:21.67]Doin' five to eight [02:23.29]I'm just stampin' out my [02:30.54]Time makin' Tennessee plates