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Looking for cars songs

05 Apr 09 - 05:36 PM (#2605219)
Subject: Looking for cars songs
From: longwalker

HI I am looking for songs about running moonshine thank for the help


05 Apr 09 - 06:47 PM (#2605264)
Subject: RE: Looking for cars songs
From: Bruce MacNeill

"Thunder Road" is the only one that quickly comes to mind. It is in the DT database. It's from the movie of the same name.


06 Apr 09 - 11:39 AM (#2605661)
Subject: RE: Looking for cars songs
From: topical tom

"Running Moonshine on Highway Nine.


07 Apr 09 - 10:29 AM (#2606499)
Subject: RE: Looking for cars songs
From: mandotim

Copperhead Road (Steve Earle)?
Tim


07 Apr 09 - 12:57 PM (#2606617)
Subject: RE: Looking for cars songs
From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego

"Hot Rod Lincoln," performed by Johnny Bond, Commander Cody and others:

TITLE: Hot Rod Lincoln
Lyrics and Chords


My pappy said, "Son, you're gonna' drive me to drinkin'
If you don't stop drivin' that Hot Rod Lincoln"

Have you heard this story of the Hot Rod Race
When Fords and Lincolns was settin' the pace
That story is true, I'm here to say
I was drivin' that Model A

/ E - / A7 - / B7 - / E - /

It's got a Lincoln motor and it's really souped up
That Model A body makes it look like a pup
It's got eight cylinders, uses them all
It's got overdrive, just won't stall

With a 4-barrel carb and a dual exhaust
With 4.11 gears you can really get lost
It's got safety tubes, but I ain't scared
The brakes are good, tires fair

Pulled out of San Pedro late one night
The moon and the stars was shinin' bright
We was drivin' up Grapevine Hill
Passing cars like they was standing still

All of a sudden in a wink of an eye
A Cadillac sedan passed us by
I said, "Boys, that's a mark for me"
By then the tail light was all you could see

Now the fellas was ribbin' me for bein' behind
So I thought I'd make the Lincoln unwind
Took my foot off the gas and man alive
I shoved it on down into overdrive

Wound it up to a hundred-and-ten
My speedometer said that I hit top end
My foot was glued like lead to the floor
That's all there is and there ain't no more

Now the boys all thought I'd lost my sense
And telephone poles looked like a picket fence
They said, "Slow down! I see spots!
The lines on the road just look like dots"

Took a corner, sideswiped a truck
Crossed my fingers just for luck
My fenders was clickin' the guardrail posts
The guy beside me was white as a ghost

Smoke was comin' from out of the back
When I started to gain on that Cadillac
Knew I could catch him, I thought I could pass
Don't you know by then we'd be low on gas

We had flames comin' from out of the side
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

Now all of a sudden she started to knockin'
And down in the dips she started to rockin'
I looked in my mirror; a red light was blinkin'
The cops was after my Hot Rod Lincoln

They arrested me and they put me in jail
And called my pappy to throw my bail
And he said, "Son, you're gonna' drive me to drinkin'
If you don't stop drivin' that Hot Rod Lincoln!"


07 Apr 09 - 12:59 PM (#2606619)
Subject: RE: Looking for cars songs
From: GUEST,Fred Bailey

"Fireball Roberts Last Ride" by David Massengill


07 Apr 09 - 01:03 PM (#2606622)
Subject: RE: Looking for cars songs
From: GUEST,Mr Red

DOn't know the title but the chorus goes somewhat like

"Get you a copper kettle, get you a copper coil, cover with new made cornmash, never more to toil..............
You just lay there by the juniper, While the mooooooon is high, Watch them jugs a-filling, in the pale moonlight"



more about distilling than about running. Not trad - written for a play, I believe.


07 Apr 09 - 02:47 PM (#2606702)
Subject: RE: Looking for cars songs
From: open mike

IF YOU WERE "JUST" LOOKING FOR CAR SONGS,
the car talk radio show has a collection
of 'em. they feature one on each weekly
show , i think.


07 Apr 09 - 11:44 PM (#2607074)
Subject: RE: Looking for cars songs
From: Gene

The Welfare Cadillac by Guy Drake
and
Mortgaged Plymouth - Cousin Tuny
(kind of an answer song to the one above)

Long Black Limousine [many - Hank Wms Jr. does it best][INHO]

Johnny Cash - Chattanooga City Limit Sign [A real GAS!]
and One Piece At A Time

Little Pink Mack by Kay Adams

about 5 versions of the Hot Rod Race