I woke up in a hotel, didn't know what to do
I turned the TV on, and, wrote a letter to you
The news was talkin' 'bout a dragnet upon the Interstate
Seems they were lookin' for a Cadillac with Tennessee plates

Well, since I left California baby, things have gotten worse
It seems the Land of Opportunity for me is just a curse
Tell that judge in Bakersfield my trial'll have to wait
Down here they're lookin' for a Cadillac with Tennessee plates

It was somewhere in Nevada, and 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 they'd known what we was up to they wouldn't let us in
And, now we landed in Memphis like Original Sin
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 wasn't one Lincoln, and, there wasn't one Dodge
There wasn't one j__anese model or make
Just pretty, pretty Cadillacs with Tennessee plates

She saw him singing once when she was seventeen
And, ever since that day she's been living in between
I was never king of nothin' but this wild weekend
Anyway he wouldn't care, hell, he gave them to his friends

This ain't no hotel I'm writin' you from
Aw, it's the Tennessee Prison up at Brushy Mountain
Where Yours Sincerely's doin' five-to-eight
Just stampin' out my time makin' Tennessee plates

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