Cadillac Sunset Lyrics - Chuck Mckenzie

Intro: 

My baby left me, I'd thought she'd always stay 

but now she's packed up and gone away. 

I did what I could, and now I pray 

In the junkyard, at the Cadillac Sunset. 

Verse: 

I tried to go to Nashville, 

I heard the music's good there 

but I ended up in Newark 

by myself and full of despair 

I no longer had my baby 

my car was covered in mud 

so with no other choices left 

this Tennessee boy became a stud 

no, my father wasn't too proud of me 

he hollered me home instantly 

he said he had a few stern things to say 

but to my surprise... 

Chorus: 

He sat me on the truck, 

of this beat-up Cadillac 

and for the firs time in my life, 

gave me a pat on the back 

It'll be alright, son. 

(he said...) 

Look up at the sky, 

the sun is setting 

When you wake up tomorrow, 

it will be a'rising 

It's a new day, son. 

Ohh oh, 

It's a Cadillac sunset. 

Verse: 

We live and die by trucks 

my mother always said to me 

as sure as a donkey bucks 

my family loved our country 

and with those as her final words 

I never saw my old lady again 

and now I sit, reading books 

on the Cadillac in the sun. 

Chorus: 

He sat me on the truck, 

of this beat-up Cadillac 

and for the firs time in my life, 

gave me a pat on the back 

It'll be alright, son. 

(he said...) 

Look up at the sky, 

the sun is setting 

When you wake up tomorrow, 

it will be a'rising 

It's a new day, son. 

Ohh oh, 

It's a Cadillac sunset. 

Ohh oh, 

It's a Cadillac sunset.