Tennessee Plates - Charlie Sexton

I woke up in a hotel and I didnt know what to do

I turned the tv on and wrote a letter to you

The news was talkin bout a dragnet up on the interstate

Said they were lookin for a cadillac with tennessee plates

Since I left california baby, things have gotten worse

Seems the land of opportunity for me is just a curse

Tell that judge in bakersfield that my trial will have to wait

Down here theyre 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

If theyd known what we was up to they wouldnt a let us in When we landed in memphis like original sin

Up elvis presley boulevard to the graceland gates

See we were lookin for a cadillac with tennessee plates

Well, there must have been a dozen of them parked in that garage

And there wasnt one lincoln and there wasnt one dodge

And there wasnt one japanese model or make

Just pretty, pretty cadillacs with tennessee plates

She saw him singing once when she was seventeen

And ever since that day shes been living in between

I was never king of nothin but this wild weekend

Anyway he wouldnt care, hell he gave them to his friends

Well this aint no hotel Im writin you from

Its the tennessee prison up at brushy mountain

Where yours sincerelys doin five to eight

Stampin out my time makin tennessee plates