We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Memphis Cadillac

from The Country Side of Bill White by Bill White

/

lyrics

Is it true that country music
Has no more Phantom Engineers
Or heroes like Bid Bad John?
Or Johnny Horton singing :The Battle of New Orleans"
Tell me where have all the good songs gone?
Does anybody have the time
To listen to the voices
From the heavenly battlefield on high?
They might not have the answers
But they still ask the questions
We just walk around and wonder why

I don't care where you live in this country
I don't care if your state is red or blue
But you had better stand up for my rights
If you want me to stand with you

Chorus:
There are nights when you should lock your doors
Don't even open them a crack
Or all you love will get blown out
In a carpet bag or a gunny sack
But someday everything we lost
Will come roaring back
Behind the wheel of a Memphis Cadillac

Nobody's writing songs
Like "The Devil Came to Kansas"
Or "He Stopped Loving her Today."
Lefty, Hank, and Jimmy
Jumped into the water tank
Ain't no use in waiting for a train
When all of macon county
Is all dressed up and lonely
And the band doesn't know what song to play.
Because yesterday lies further
Than the eyes can see
And tomorrow is too many miles away

I don't care what you smoke
Or who you marry
Just don't touch the flag that flies
Above the cemetery

Repeat Chorus

I was driving on the freeway
Everyone was of the same mind
If the weren't, it would be a helluva sight
Each one driving to a different drummer
it would really be a bummer
They'd be crashing into each other, left and right
There is a cadillac a comin
Must be doin about a hundred
Can't tell who is drivin, but that's all right
If it's Jefferson Davis or Honest Abe
Shuck Pruett or the Babe
But I know who he is carrying tonight

It's David Bowie and Elvis
Singing on an old song
The kind you dont hear much anymore
it was written by Stephen Foster
Born on the fourth of July in Pittsburgh
Called, "Hard Times Come Again No More"

Repeat Chorus

credits

from The Country Side of Bill White, released October 11, 2017

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Bill White image

Bill White Lima, Peru

contact / help

Contact Bill White

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like Bill White, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Featuring Riley Pinkerton (aka The Rat Queen) from the theatrical NYC rockers, Castle Rat.
listen now