JOHNNY CASH - ONE PIECE AT A TIME CHORDS

Capo: 1 Tuning: E A D G B E

Recorded by Johnny Cash Written by Wayne Kemp [Intro] E A B B E E [Verse 1]

^EWell I left Kentucky back in '49 And went to ^ADetroit working on assembly line The ^B7first year they had me putting wheels on Cadil^Elac's

Every day I'd watch them beauties roll by

And ^Asometimes I'd hang my head and cry 'Cause I ^B7always wanted me one that was long and ^Eblack

[Verse 2] One day I devised myself a plan

That should ^Abe the envy of most any man I'd ^B7sneak it outta there in a lunch box in my ^Ehand

Now getting caught meant getting fired

But I ^Afigured I'd have it all by the time I retired I'd ^B7have me a car worth at least a hundred ^Egrand

[Chorus]

I'd get it one piece at a time and it ^Awouldn't cost me a dime You'll ^B7know it's me when I come through your ^Etown I'm gonna ride around in style I'm gonna ^Adrive everybody wild 'Cause ^B7I'll have the only one there is ^Earound

[Verse 3] So the very next day when I punched in

With my ^Abig lunch box and with help from my friends I ^B7left that day with a lunch-box full of ^Egears

I've never considered myself a thief

But ^AGM wouldn't miss just one little piece Es^B7pecially if I strung it out over several ^Eyears

[Verse 4] The first day I got me a fuel pump

And the ^Anext day I got me an engine and a trunk Then ^B7I got me a transmission and all the ^Echrome

The little things I could get in my big lunch box

Like ^Anuts and bolts and all four shocks ^B7But the big stuff we snuck out in my buddy's mobile ^Ehome

[Verse 5] Now up to now my plan went alright

Till we ^Atried to put it all together one night And ^B7that's when we noticed that something was definitely ^Ewrong

The transmission was a '53

And the ^Amotor turned out to be a '73 And ^B7when we tried to put in the bolts all the holes were ^Egone

[Verse 6] So we drilled it out so that it would fit

And with a little ^Abit of help from an adapter kit We ^B7had that engine running just like a ^Esong

Now the headlights they was another sight

We had ^Atwo on the left and one on the right But ^B7when we pulled out the switch all three of 'em come ^Eon

[Verse 7] The back end looked kind of funny too

But we ^Aput it together and when we got through Well ^B7that's when we noticed that we only had one tail ^Efin

About that time my wife walked out

And I could ^Asee in her eyes that she had her doubts But she ^B7opened the door and said honey take me for a ^Espin

[Verse 8] So we drove uptown just to get the tags

And I ^Aheaded her right on down main drag I could ^B7hear everybody laughing for blocks ^Earound

But up there at the courthouse they didn't laugh

Cause to ^Atype it up it took the whole staff And when ^B7they got through the title weighed sixty ^Epounds

[Chorus]

I got it one piece at a time and it^A didn't cost me a dime You'd ^B7know it's me when I come through your ^Etown I'm gonna ride around in style I'm gonna ^Adrive everybody wild 'Cause I'll ^B7have the only one there is a^Eround

[Ourtro Spoken]

^EAh yeah Red Rider this is the Cottonmouth ^EIn the Psychobilly Cadillac come on ^EOh this is the Cottonmouth and negatory ^EOn the cost of this machine there Red Rider ^EYou might say I went right up to the factory and picked it up ^EIt's cheaper that way... ^EAh what model it is?

^EWell it's a '49, '50, '51, '52, ^A'53, '54, '55, '56 ^B7'57 '58' 59' Automo^Ebile It's a '60, '61, '62, '63, ^A'64, '65, '66, '67 ^B7'68, '69, '70 Automo^Ebile