The Felice Brothers - Lincoln Continental lyrics

rate me

When I was a child, my mother said to me

You can't spend all your days alone

In the shade of a cherry tree.

My brother cut the roof off a Lincoln,

'cause a doctor said lose some weight

And the tape of Buck Owens, our hair was blowing

As we drove from the Garden State

To the lights of the Golden Gate.

I've been missing you, so listen

I'd like to ask you could you drive to town?

And I've been thinking about your Lincoln

Continental with the sun roof down

When the kid came down from Lennox

Yeah yawning was the talk of the town

A real high roller, a self promoter

Said his band was the best around

He said, "I got a little money from performing,

I bought a brand new suit and hat."

I said, "Performing what?" He said, "Classic stuff,

Ricky Hayes and Virginia scat."

I said, "Who the hell is that?"

But I can play a little old time fiddle

We can start a little country band

And I was thinking, in your Lincoln

We can bum around the Promised Land

And the world will open up for us.

At least that's what I hope it does.

Probation officer John Collins

Was a paranoid psychopath.

He had me painting the fence by the roller rink

For the Committee of Industrial Trash.

"You can't find the business end of a rifle,

You're the devil from an Irish saint."

I said I got no cares in those affairs,

What I was, what I am or ain't.

I got a lot of fence to paint.

I got no loving, all because I'm

Kinda infamous for crossing lines

It got me thinking, even Lincoln

Must have felt a little lost sometimes.

And the world will open up for us.

At least that's what I hope it does.