The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #16755   Message #3257936
Posted By: Joe Offer
16-Nov-11 - 04:55 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Put the Hearse in Reverse (Billy C. Cole)
Subject: ADD: Put the Hearse in Reverse (Billy C. Cole)
OK. My posting of this song is not necessarily an indication that I like it.....
This song made the World's Dumbest Songs Website. What an honor. Well, I do like it, but it's still a dumb song.

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN2K98HM-9w

PUT THE HEARSE IN REVERSE
(D. Clements, R. Batson, L. Cole - from the recording by Billy C. Cole)

There's a big, long line of cars, I'm in the first;
With headlights on in the afternoon -
You're right, you guessed the worst.
Can't somebody help me, and get me out of here -
Before they reach the graveyard
And say that final prayer.

CHORUS:
Oh, put the hearse in reverse,
'Cause I wanna live again;
There's lots of things I haven't done,
And towns I haven't been.
Please don't bury me in this box I'm lyin' in,
Put the hearse in reverse
'Cause I wanna live again.

I lost my job, my house and car,
My money, kids and wife;
And now to make things even worse,
Well, I've gone and lost my life;
I wish that Lady Luck
Could one time let me win,
Put this hearse in reverse
And let me live again.

CHORUS

I've made love from coast to coast
In my younger days.
I drank and fought and loved some more,
And lived my rowdy ways.
There's some girls I know I've missed,
And fights I ain't been in,
So put this hearse in reverse
And let me live again.

CHORUS
No one's listenin' to my pleas,
I guess I go unheard.
For all the talkin' that I'm doin',
They can't hear a single word.
We've just reached the graveyard,
And now we're turnin' in,
Put the hearse in reverse
And let me live again.

CHORUS

[spoken]
Uh-oh.
Hey, stop!
Please, stop!
Hey, wait a minute!
He ain't backin' up!
He shut the motor off!
Hey! Hey! What are you ape (?) cats doin' here?
I don't wanna go!
No! No! No! Help me! Hey!.....