Daddy's Cup-Drive-By Truckers

[ti:Daddy's Cup] [ar:Drive-By Truckers] [al:The Dirty South] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.80]Daddy's Cup - Drive-By Truckers [00:02.16] [00:18.72]Before I could walk I had a wrench in my hand [00:22.90]I was my mama's little angel and my daddy's second chance [00:26.61]He went end over end the first year he went pro [00:30.67]Lost part of his eyesight and he couldn't race no more [00:34.11] [00:39.50]He never lost his touch when he got underneath the hood [00:43.35]He knew how to make them run [00:44.69] [00:45.47]He knew one day he would see [00:47.55]His name in victory lane and engraved on that cup [00:50.72]Just like all them other crazy fools with racing in their blood [00:54.70] [01:00.04]He would put me on his lap [01:01.91]When he'd drive and I'd take the wheel [01:04.09]He'd say what do you think about that son how does she feel [01:08.04]You just wait till them little legs get long enough to reach the gas [01:10.97] [01:11.58]Once you put her on the floor one time there ain't no turning back [01:15.32] [01:23.97]Every Saturday he'd take me out to the garage [01:27.10] [01:27.64]He'd take an empty bucket and fill it full of engine parts [01:31.57]He's sit me down and pour em out in front of me on the floor [01:35.19]I'd have to tell him what each one was and what each one was for [01:38.66] [01:44.25]We'd jump into the car and go down to the race that night [01:48.09]He'd tell me what each driver was doing wrong and what each one did right [01:52.59]He could always pick the winner before they ever took a curve [01:55.85]3 might have the car but 43 has got the nerve [01:59.60] [02:05.12]Before I turned 18 daddy said now pretty soon [02:08.89]You'll be old enough to drive but I'll leave it up to you [02:12.18] [02:13.26]I taught you all about it taught you everything I know [02:16.20] [02:16.76]You gotta have a car to do it [02:18.59]And you gotta work and buy your own [02:20.21] [02:59.98]The first one I bought was a mustang 2 [03:03.30]Nobody kept 'em any longer than they kept a pair of shoes [03:08.06]They started showing up at every used car lot in town [03:11.48]A v-8 on a go-cart easy terms no money down [03:14.86] [03:20.28]Me and daddy and my uncle took her home and tore her down [03:24.68]Checked her out real good cleaned her up and bored her out [03:28.55]Took out all the seats pulled the carpet off the floor [03:31.84] [03:32.40]Knocked out all the glass and welded up the doors [03:35.58] [03:41.14]The first time that I raced my qualifying was a shame [03:45.08]I started out way in the back and came back about the same [03:49.27]I pulled her in the pit couldn't look my daddy in the eye [03:52.88]He said if you quit now son it's gonna haunt you all your life [03:56.21] [03:59.71]It ain't about the money or even being 1 [04:03.49]You gotta know when it's all over you did the best you could've done [04:07.91]Knowing that it's in you and you never let it out [04:11.47]Is worse than blowing any engine or any wreck you'll ever have [04:14.85] [04:20.13]Since then I've wrecked a bunch of cars and I've broke a bunch of bones [04:23.96] [04:24.55]It's anybody's race out there and I've learned to race my own [04:27.82] [04:28.48]I'd shove em in the wall and I'd hit em from behind [04:31.85]I'd let them know that I was there [04:33.97]I'd let them know that track was mine [04:36.16] [04:41.24]It's been several years now since my daddy passed away [04:44.60]But his picture's on my dash every time I go to race [04:48.95]I lost more than I won but I ain't gonna give up [04:52.61]Till they put me in the ground or daddy's name's on that cup