Cadillac Ranch  (1980)    (video)

 

    G - C - G   - G - C - D - G (2x)

 

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1. Well, there she sits, buddy, just a-gleaming in the sun,

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   there to greet a working man when his day is done,

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    I‘m gonna pack my pa and I‘m gonna pack my aunt,

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    I‘m gonna take them down to the Cadillac Ranch.

 

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2. Eldorado fins, whitewalls and skirts,

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    rides just like a bit of heaven here on earth,

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    Well, buddy when I die, throw my body in the back,

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    drive me to the junkyard in my Cadillac.

 

G                              - C                         - G

    Cadillac, Cadillac,       long and dark,        shiny and black,

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    open up your engines, let them roar,

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tearing up the highway like a big old dinosaur !

 

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3.      James Dean in that Mercury forty-nine,

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    Junior Johnson running through the woods of Carolina,

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    even Burt Reynolds in that black Trans-Am,

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    all gonna meet down at the Cadillac Ranch.

 

+  CHORUS           +  instrumental = CHORUS

 

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4.    Hey, little girlie, in the blue jeans so tight,

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    drivin‘ alone through the        Wisconsin night,

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    You‘re my last love, baby, you‘re my last chance,

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    don‘t let them take me to the Cadillac Ranch.

 

G                               C                          - G

    Cadillac, Cadillac,      long and dark,        shiny and black,

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    pulled up to my house today,        came and took my little girl away.

 

+  instrumental = CHORUS (2x)

 

 

    (Bruce Springsteen)