Linda Ronstadt
Linda Ronstadt - Tennessee Plates lyrics
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I woke up in a hotel and I didn`t 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 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 If they`d known what we was up to they wouldn`t `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 wasn`t one Lincoln and there wasn`t one Dodge And there wasn`t 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 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 Well this ain`t no hotel I`m writin` you from It`s the Tennessee prison up at Brushy Mountain Where yours sincerely`s doin` five to eight Stampin` out my time makin` Tennessee plates