Lord, Mr. Ford-Jerry Reed

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[00:00.00]Lord, Mr. Ford - Jerry Reed
[00:06.05]Well if you're one of the millions who own one of them
[00:08.10]Gas drinking piston clinking air polluting smoke belching
[00:10.47]Four wheeled buggies from Detroit City then pay attention
[00:15.35]I'm about to sing your song son
[00:26.03]Well I'm not a man appointed judge
[00:28.28]To bear ill-will and hold a grudge
[00:30.22]But I think it's time I said me a few choice words
[00:33.98]All about that demon automobile
[00:36.29]A metal box with the polyglass wheel
[00:38.35]The end result to the dream of Henry Ford
[00:42.10]Well I've got a car that's mine alone
[00:44.35]That me and the finance company own
[00:46.29]A ready made pile of manufactured grief
[00:49.85]And if I ain't out of gas in the pouring rain
[00:52.41]I'm a-changing a flat in a hurricane
[00:54.41]I once spent three days lost on a cloverleaf
[00:58.17]Well it ain't just the smoke and the traffic jam
[01:00.41]That makes me the bitter fool I am
[01:02.48]But this four wheel buggy is a-dollaring me to death
[01:05.98]For gas and oils and fluids and grease
[01:08.48]And wires and tires and anti-freeze
[01:10.37]And them accessories well honey that's something else
[01:13.96]Well you can get a stereo tape and a color TV
[01:16.46]Get a backseat bar and reclining seats
[01:18.34]And just pay once a month like you do your rent
[01:22.27]Well I figured it up and over a period of time
[01:24.71]This four thousand dollar car of mine
[01:26.46]Costs fourteen thousand dollars and ninety-nine cents
[01:30.15]Well now Lord Mr Ford I just wish that you could see
[01:34.47]What your simple horseless carriage has become
[01:38.43]Well it seems your contribution to man
[01:41.04]To say the least got a little out of hand
[01:42.91]Well Lord Mr Ford what have you done
[01:54.85]Now the average American father and mother
[01:57.10]Own one whole car and half another
[01:59.16]And I bet that half a car is a trick to buy don't you
[02:02.91]But the thing that amazes me I guess
[02:05.04]Is the way we measure a man's success
[02:07.29]By the kind of an automobile he can afford to buy
[02:10.78]Well now red light green light traffic cop
[02:13.29]Right turn no turn must turn stop
[02:15.35]Get out the credit card honey we're out of gas
[02:19.16]Well now all the car's placed end to end
[02:21.35]Would reach to the moon and back again
[02:23.41]And there'd probably be some fool pull out to pass
[02:26.97]Well now how I yearn for the good old days
[02:29.54]Without that carbon monoxide haze
[02:31.54]A-hanging over the roar of the interstate
[02:35.10]Well if the Lord that made the moon and stars
[02:37.60]Would have meant for me and you to have cars
[02:39.66]He'd have seen that we was all born with a parking space
[02:43.97]Lord Mr Ford I just wish that you could see
[02:47.65]What your simple horseless carriage has become
[02:51.41]Well it seems your contribution to man
[02:53.97]To say the least got a little out of hand
[02:56.03]Well Lord Mr Ford what have you done
[02:59.84]Come away with me Lucille
[03:03.60]In my smoking choking automobile