Hot Rod Race-Jimmie Dolan/Tennessee Ernie Ford

[ti:Hot Rod Race] [ar:Ramblin' Jimmy Dolan] [al:Las Canciones Del A?O En Que Naciste 1951] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Hot Rod Race - Jimmie Dolan/Tennessee Ernie Ford [00:03.62]Now me and my wife and my brother Joe [00:05.46]Took off in my Ford from San Pedro [00:07.70]We hadn't much gas and the tires was low [00:09.59]But the doggone Ford could really go [00:11.53] [00:15.75]Now along about the middle of the night [00:17.52]We were rippin' along like white folks might [00:19.77]When a Mercury behind he blinked his lights [00:21.70]And he honked his horn and he flew outside [00:24.02] [00:27.80]We had twin pipes and a Columbia butt [00:29.73]You people may think that I'm in a rut [00:31.79]But to you folks who don't dig the jive [00:33.78]That's two carburetors and an overdrive [00:36.01] [00:51.93]We made grease spots outta many good town [00:53.82]And left the cops heads spinnin' round and round [00:56.12]They wouldn't chase they'd run and hide [00:57.81]But me and that Mercury stayed side by side [01:00.45] [01:03.96]Now we were Ford men and we likely knew [01:05.75]That we would race until somethin' blew [01:07.85]And we thought it over [01:09.74] [01:10.27]Now wouldn't you [01:11.09] [01:16.28]I looked down at my lovely bride [01:17.85]Her face was blue I thought she'd died [01:20.00]We left streaks through towns about forty feet wide [01:22.44]But me and that Mercury stayed side by side [01:25.57] [01:28.02]My brother was pale he said he was sick [01:29.99]He said he was just a nervous wreck [01:32.14]But why should I worry for what the heck [01:34.33]Me and that Mercury was still neck and neck [01:36.45] [01:52.06]Now on through the deserts we did glide [01:53.94]A flyin' low and a flyin' wide [01:56.09]Me an' that Mercury was a takin' a ride [01:57.99]And we stayed exactly side by side [02:00.08] [02:03.76]Then I looked in my mirror and [02:04.89]I saw somethin' comin' [02:05.87]I thought it was a plane [02:06.86]By the way it was a runnin' [02:07.91]Hummin' along at a terrible pace [02:09.70]And I knew right then [02:10.70]It was the end of the race [02:11.74] [02:15.85]When it flew by us [02:16.73]I turned the other way [02:17.76]The guy in the Mercury [02:18.84]Had nothin' to say [02:19.86] [02:20.85]For it was a kid [02:21.95] [02:22.79]In a hopped up model A [02:24.16] [02:25.10]Yeah Just hopped up model A