All - Hot Rod Lincoln

My pappy said "Son your gonna drive me to drinkin'

If you don't stop driving that Hot Rod Lincoln"



Have you heard the story of the hot rod race

Where the Fords and the Lincolns were setting the pace?

That story is true I'm here to say

Cause I was driving that model A.



It's got A Lincoln motor and its really souped up

And that model A body makes it look like a pup

It's got eight cylinders, uses them all

Got overdrive, It just won't stall



With four barrel carbs, and A dual exhaust

With four:eleven gears you can really get lost.

Got safety tubes, but I ain't scared

The breaks are good, the tires fair



We pulled out of San Pedro late one night

With the moon and the stars were shining bright

We was driving up on grapevine Hill

Passing cars like they was standing still



All of a sudden, in the wink of an eye

A Cadillac sedan passed us by

I said "Boys, that's a mark for me"

By then the tail lights was all you could see



Now the fellas all rid me for being behind

So I thought I'd make that Lincoln unwind

Took my foot of the gas and man alive

I shoved it on down into over drive



Well I wound it up to 110

My speedometer said that I'd hit top end

My foot was glued like lead to the floor

That's all there is, there ain't no more



Now the boys all thought that I'd lost my sense

Them telephone poles were like a picket fence

They said "Slow down, I see spots!"

The lines on the road just looked like dots



We took a corner, side swiped a truck

And I crossed my fingers just for luck

My fenders was clicking the guard rail post

The guy beside me was white as a ghost



Smoke was coming from out of the back

When I started to gain on that Cadillac

I knew I could catch him, I thought I could pass

But don't you know by then we'd be low on gas



I had flames coming from out of the side

You could feel the tension, man what a ride

I said "Look out boys, I've got a license to fly"

And that Caddy pulled over and let us by



All of the sudden she started knocking

Down in the dips she started rocking

I looked in the mirror. Red lights were blinking

The cops was after my Hot Rod Lincoln



Well they arrested me and they put me in jail

Called my pappy to throw my bail

And he said "Son, you're going to drive me to drinkin'

If you don't stop driving that Hot Rod Lincoln"