# Return-path: <jacobw@andromeda.tamu.edu> ribtm@ttacs.ttu.edu Message-id: <9407202109.AA05290@andromeda.tamu.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL22] Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-length: 2069 THE RIDE by: David Allan Coe Intro: A# F C, repeated twice.

^CI was thumbin' back from Montgomery ^D# ^D#with a guitar on my back ^FWhen a stranger pulled up beside me in an an^Ctique Cadillac. ^CWell, he was dressed like 1950, half d^D#runk and hallow eyed ^FIts a long walk to Nashville, would you like a r^Cide, son. ^CHe sat down in the front seat, and tu^D#rned on the radio and them s^Fad old songs comin' outta them speakers was so^Clid country gold. T^Chen I noticed the stranger was ghost white pale when he as^D#ked me for a light. And k^Fnew there was somethin' strange about this r^Cide.

CHORUS:

He said: Mi^A#ster can you make folks c^Fry when you play and s^Cang. C^Can you pay your dues, can you moan the blues Can you b^Gend them guitar strangs. He said: B^A#oy, can you make folks f^Feel what you feel in^Cside, Cause if your b^A#ig star bound let me w^Farn you its a long hard r^Cide.

2. Well, he cried just south of Nashville, and he turned that car around. he said: (spoken) this is where you get off, boy cause I'm going back to Alabam'. I stepped out of that ole Cadillac and I said Mister, many thanks. he said you don't have to call me mister, Mister. The whole world calls me Hank. repeat Chorus once or twice, depending on how you want to play it. Well, here is one of them DAC songs. You can post or whatever you would like to do with them. I had to do this by memory, so play it and see if it is correct. Looking forward to a new newsletter. Later!

David Allan Coe - The ride