Earls Dead - Cadillac For Sale

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Earl’s dead Cadillac for sale
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An Eldorado sits out on the Tamiami Trail
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Sign on the windshield tells the whole tale
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Earl’s dead Cadillac for sale


[Verse]
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He was a circus man when they first met
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He was fired from a cannon into a net
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The money was good he always hit the bullseye
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Savin’ for the car one day he would buy


[Verse]
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No he wasn’t thinking of some average ride
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A Human Cannonball has a lot pride
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If you’re gonna live large you need a high dramatic
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Eldorado Biarritz for this wild acro-batic


[Chorus]
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And Earl’s is red with shark-like fins
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And that’s where this little love tale begins
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The rear view mirror puts it all in scale
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Earl’s dead- Cadillac for sale


[Verse]
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She was an Everglades Girl partly Seminole
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With an urge for going and a wondering soul
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With a name like Moonvine she knew she’d never stay
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But that handsome human bullet stole her heart away


[Verse]
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It was Saturday night after the midnight show
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She was staring at the car when he said, “hello.”
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Didn’t take too much to move her off the reservation
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Just a good looking boy with the right trans-portation


[Chorus]
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And now Earl is Wed, Moonvine’s got her veil
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Their tow’n that cannon down the Tamiami trail
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He’s got the talent, she’s got brains
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Earl and Moonvine- left the land of sugarcane


[Bridge]
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So they drove down to Panama and back up to Maine
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Had so much fun, hell, they did it again
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Crossing cities off the map as they shot down the road
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Knowing tow’n a cannon things could ex - plode


[Bridge]
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Now a Cadillac was always an Elvis thing
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Polished chrome and gold it was the birth of bling
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They came with personality, they made you a star
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God may have made the earth,
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but Man made that c - ar


[Verse]
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Now all the way back to the time of James Dean
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Car crash songs chewed up heroes and machines
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Sick minds, stop signs and uncontrolled swerves
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But Earl and his Caddy could handle killer curves


[Verse]
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So when the big top folded Earl took his last ride
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Moonvine kissed her boy goodbye, his exit had arrived
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She shot his ashes ‘cross the gulf from that ancient rusty gun
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Nomads know when the show is done


[Chorus]
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And Earl’s dead he’s been air mailed
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And that Eldorado waiting on the Tamiami trail
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For some shameless enter-tainer to blow in like a gale
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Earl’s dead – Cadillac for sale

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Earl’s Dead    Earl’s dead

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A-   men