[ti:Earl's Dead - Cadillac For Sale]
[ar:Jimmy Buffett]
[al:Songs From St. Somewhere]
[00:00.43]Earl's Dead - Cadillac For Sale - Jimmy Buffett
[00:03.71].
[00:17.32]Earl's dead – Cadillac for sale
[00:21.38]An Eldorado sits out on the Tamiami Trail
[00:25.50]Sign on the windshield tells the whole tale
[00:30.36]Earl's dead – Cadillac for sale
[00:37.56].
[00:40.69]He was a circus man when they first met
[00:44.87]He was fired from a cannon into a net
[00:49.05]The money was good he always hit the bullseye
[00:53.74]Savin' for the car one day he would buy
[00:59.05].
[01:01.68]No, he wasn't thinkin' of some average ride
[01:05.87]A human cannonball has a lot of pride
[01:09.99]If you're gonna live large you need a hydramatic
[01:14.49]Eldorado Biarritz for this wild acrobatic
[01:20.55].
[01:22.81]And Earl's is red with shark-like fins
[01:26.80]And that is where this little love tale begins
[01:31.68]The rear view mirror puts it all in scale
[01:39.36]Earl's dead – Cadillac for sale
[01:43.85].
[01:46.98]She was an Everglades girl, partly Seminole
[01:51.16]With an urge for goin', and a wanderin' soul
[01:55.62]With a name like Moonvine she knew she'd never stay
[01:59.75]That handsome human bullet stole her heart away
[02:05.08].
[02:08.02]It was a Saturday night after the midnight show
[02:12.03]She was starin' at the car when he said "hello"
[02:16.25]Didn't take too much to move her off the reservation
[02:20.80]Just a good lookin' boy with the right transportation
[02:26.87].
[02:29.05]And now Earl is wed, Moonvine's got her veil
[02:33.37]They're towin' that cannon down the Tamiami Trail
[02:38.25]He's got the talent, she's got brains
[02:42.99]Earl and Moonvine, left the land of sugar cane
[02:50.21].
[02:53.59]So they drove down to Panama and back up to Maine
[02:57.48]Had so much fun, hell, they did it again
[03:01.54]Crossing cities off the map as they shot down the road
[03:06.04]Knowin' towin' a cannon, things could explode
[03:12.85].
[03:38.80]Now a Cadillac was always an Elvis thing
[03:42.88]Polished chrome and gold it was the birth of bling
[03:47.14]They came with personality they made you a star
[03:51.10]God may have made the earth
[03:53.65]But man made that car
[03:57.59].
[04:02.24]Now all the way back to the time of James Dean
[04:06.35]Car crash songs chewed up heroes and machines
[04:10.36]Sick minds, stop signs and uncontrolled swerves
[04:14.53]But Early and his Caddy could handle killer curves
[04:19.96].
[04:22.66]So when the big top folded, Early took his last drive
[04:26.91]Moonvine kissed her boy goodbye, his exit had arrived
[04:31.04]She shot his ashes 'cross the Gulf from that ancient rusty gun
[04:35.73]Nomads know when the show is done
[04:40.86].
[04:43.98]And Earl's dead, he's been airmailed
[04:48.01]And that Eldorado's waitin' on the Tamiami Trail
[04:52.27]For some shameless entertainer to blow in like a gale
[05:00.43]Earl's dead – Cadillac for sale
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[05:19.49]Earl's dead, Earl's dead
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