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	E	A
	I woke up in a hotel and I didn't know w	hat to do

	E	B	E
	I turned the TV on and wrote a l	etter to	you

	E	A
The news was tal	kin' 'bout a dragnet up on the i	nterstate

	E	B	E
Said they were l	ookin' for a Cadillac wi	th Tennessee pla	tes

INTRO: EEEA / EEBE

	E	A
Since I	left California baby, things have gotten	worse

	E	B	E
Seems th	e land of opportunity fo	r me is just a c	urse

	E	A
Tell tha	t judge in Bakersfield that my trial wil	l have to wait

	E	B	E
Down here they'r	e lookin' for a Cadillac with Te	nnessee	plates

	A
It was s	omewhere in Nevada, it was cold outside

	E
She was	shiverin' in the dark, so I offered her a ride

	A
Three ba	nk jobs later, four cars hot wired

	B
We cross	ed the Mississippi like an oil slick fire

INTRO: EEEA / EEBE

	E	A
If they'	d known what we was up to they wouldn't 'a let u	s in

	E	B	E
When we	landed in Memphis like ori	ginal s	in

	E	A
Up Elv	is Presley Boulevard to the Graceland gate	s

	E	B	E
See we were look	in' for a Cadillac with	Tennessee p	lates

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	E	A
Well, there mu	st have been a dozen of them parked in that garage

	E	B	E
And there w	asn't one Lincoln and there w	asn't one D	odge

	E	A
And ther	e wasn't one Japanese model or m	ake

	E	B	E
Just pre	tty, pretty Cadillacs wi	th Tennessee pla	tes

	A
She sa	w him singing once when she was seventeen

	E
And ever	since that day she's been living in between

	A
I was ne	ver king of nothin' but this wild weekend

	B
Anyway h	e wouldn't care, hell he gave them to his friends + INSTR. A E (B E)

	E	E
Well thi	s ain't no hotel I'm writin' you from /	It's the Tennessee prison up at Brushy Mountain

E A(build up) E (stop) AE A E / B E

Where yours sincerely's doin' five to eight / Stampin' out my time makin' Tennessee plates

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Tennessee Plates

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