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David Allan Coe - The Ride Lyrics

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  • Well, I was thumbin' from Montgomery -
  • Had my guitar on my back -
  • When a stranger stopped beside me in an antique Cadillac.
  • He was dressed like 1950 - half drunk and hollow-eyed.
  • He said, "It's a long walk to Nashville. Would you like a ride, son?"
  • I sat down in the front seat. He turned on the radio,
  • And them sad old songs comin' out of them speakers was solid country gold.
  • Then I noticed the stranger was ghost-white pale when he asked me for a light
  • And I knew there was something strange about this ride.
  • He said, "Drifter, can you make folks cry when you play and sing?
  • Have you paid your dues?
  • Can you moan the Blues?
  • Can you bend them guitar strings?"
  • He said, "Boy, can you make folks feel what you feel inside?
  • 'Cause if you're big-star bound, let me warn you it's a long, hard ride."
  • Then he cried just south of Nashville and he turned that car around.
  • He said, "This is where you get off, Boy, 'Cause I'm goin' back to Alabam'."
  • As I stepped out of that Cadillac, I said, "Mister, many thanks."
  • He said, "You don't have to call me 'Mister', Mister;
  • The whole world called me 'Hank'!"
  • He said, "Drifter, can you make folks cry when you play and sing?
  • Have you paid your dues?
  • Can you m-o-o-oan the Blues?
  • Can you bend them guitar strings?"
  • He said, "Boy, can you make folks feel what you feel inside?
  • 'Cause if you're big-star bound, let me warn you it's a long, hard ride."
  • He said, " Drifter, can you make folks cry when you play and sing?
  • Have you paid your dues?
  • Can you m-o-o-oan the Blues?
  • Can you bend them guitar strings?"
  • He said, "Boy, can you make folks feel what you feel inside?
  • 'Cause if you're big-star bound, let me warn you it's a long, hard ride."
  • If you're big-star bound, let me warn you it's a long, hard ride.

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