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Joe Bonamassa( Joseph Leonard Bonamassa )
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Tennessee Plates
Lyricist:John Hiatt, Michael Stuart Porter
I woke up in a hotel and didn't know what to do I turned the TV on, wrote a letter to you The news was talkin' 'bout a dead man upon the interstate Seems they're lookin' for a Cadillac with Tennessee plates
Well, since I left California, baby, things have gotten worse Seems the land of opportunity, for me it's just a curse Tell that judge in Bakersfield, my trial'll have to wait They're lookin' for a Cadillac with Tennessee plates
It was somewhere in Nevada, it was cold outside She was shiverin' in the dark, so I offered her a ride Three bank jobs later, four cars hot-wired We crossed the Mississippi like an oil slick fire
And if they'd known what we was up to, they wouldn't have let us in Now we landed in Memphis like original sin Find more lyrics at ※ Mojim.com Elvis Presley Boulevard to the Graceland gates Oh, see we're lookin' for a Cadillac with Tennessee plates
Man, there must have been a dozen of 'em parked in that garage And there wasn't one Lincoln and there wasn't one Dodge Wasn't one Japanese model or make And just some pretty, pretty Cadillacs with Tennessee plates
She saw him singin' once when she was seventeen Ever since that day she's been livin' in between I was never king of nothin' but that wild weekend Anyway he wouldn't care, hell, he gave them to his friends
Ain't no hotel I'm writin' you from The Tennessee prison up at Brushy Mountain Where yours sincerely's doin' five to eight Stampin' out my time makin' Tennessee plates
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