Tennessee Plates Lyrics - Tennessee Plates - Mark Collie

I woke up in a hotel, didn't know what to do 

I turned the TV on, wrote a letter to you 

The news was talkin' 'bout a dead man upon the interstate 

Seems they were lookin' for a Cadillac with Tennessee plates 

Well, since I left California, baby, things have gotten worse 

Seems the land of opportunity for me is just a curse 

Tell that judge in Bakersfield my trial'll have to wait 

Down here they're lookin' for a Cadillac with Tennessee plates 

It was somewhere in Nevada, it was cold outside 

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

Three bank jobs later, four cars hot wired 

We crossed the Mississippi like an oil slick fire 

Now if they'd known what we was up to they wouldn't let us in 

And now we landed in Memphis like original sin 

Elvis Presley Boulevard to the Graceland gates 

See we were lookin' for a Cadillac with Tennessee plates 

Well, there must have been a dozen of them parked in that garage 

There wasn't one Lincoln and there wasn't one Dodge 

There wasn't one Japanese model or make 

Just pretty, pretty Cadillacs with Tennessee plates 

She saw him singing once when she was seventeen 

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

I was never king of nothin' but this wild weekend 

Anyway he wouldn't care, hell he gave them to his friends 

This ain't no hotel, I'm writin' you from 

Now it's a Tennessee prison up at Brushy Mountain 

Where yours sincerely's doin' five to eight 

I'm just stampin' out my time makin' Tennessee plates