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Have you heard this story of the hot rod race

 When Fords and Lincolns was setting the pace

 That story is true, I'm here to say

I was driving that Model A

 It's got a Lincoln motor and it's really souped up

 That Model A body makes it look like a pup

 It's got eight cylinders, uses them all

 It's got overdrive, just won't stall

 With a 4-barrel carb and a dual exhaust

 With 4.11 gears you can really get lost

 It's got safety tubes, but I ain't scared

 The brakes are good, tires fair

Pulled out of San Pedro late one night

 The moon and the stars was shining bright

 We was driving up Grapevine Hill

Passing cars like they was standing still

All of a sudden in a wink of an eye

 A Cadillac sedan passed us by

 I said, "Boys, that's a mark for me"

 By then the tail light was all you could see

 Now the fellas was ribbing me for being behind

 So I thought I'd make the Lincoln unwind

 Took my foot off the gas and man alive

 I shoved it on down into overdrive

Wound it up to a hundred-and-ten

 My speedometer said that I hit top end

 My foot was glued like lead to the floor

 That's all there is and there ain't no more

Now the boys all thought I'd lost my sense

 And telephone poles looked like a picket fence

 They said, "Slow down! I see spots!

 The lines on the road just look like dots"

Took a corner, sideswiped a truck

Crossed my fingers just for luck

 My fenders was clicking the guardrail posts

 The guy beside me was white as a ghost

Smoke was coming from out of the back

 When I started to gain on that Cadillac

Knew I could catch him, I thought I could pass

 Don't you know by then we'd be low on gas

 We had flames coming from out of the side

 Feel the tension, man, what a ride!

 I said, "Look out, boys, I've got a license to fly"

 And that Caddy pulled over and let us by

Now all of a sudden she started to knocking

 And down in the dips she started to rocking

 I looked in my mirror; a red light was blinking

 The cops was after my hot rod Lincoln

They arrested me and they put me in jail

 And called my pappy to throw my bail

 And he said, "Son, you're gonna' drive me to drinking

 If you don't stop driving that hot, rod, Lincoln!"