Earl's Dead - Cadillac for Sale

Earl's dead – Cadillac for sale
 An Eldorado sits out on the Tamiami Trail
 Sign on the windshield tells the whole tale
 Earl's dead – Cadillac for sale
 He was a circus man when they first met
 He was fired from a cannon into a net
 The money was good he always hit the bullseye
 Savin' for the car one day he would buy
 No, he wasn't thinkin' of some average ride
 A human cannonball has a lot of pride
 If you're gonna live large you need a hydramatic
 Eldorado Biarritz for this wild acrobatic
 And Earl's is red with shark-like fins
 And that is where this little love tale begins
 The rear view mirror puts it all in scale
 Earl's dead – Cadillac for sale
 She was an Everglades girl, partly Seminole
 With an urge for goin', and a wanderin' soul
 With a name like Moonvine she knew she'd never stay
 That handsome human bullet stole her heart away
 It was a Saturday night after the midnight show
 She was starin' at the car when he said "hello"
 Didn't take too much to move her off the reservation
 Just a good lookin' boy with the right transportation
 And now Earl is wed, Moonvine's got her veil
 They're towin' that cannon down the Tamiami Trail
 He's got the talent, she's got brains
 Earl and Moonvine, left the land of sugar cane
 So they drove down to Panama and back up to Maine
 Had so much fun, hell, they did it again
 Crossing cities off the map as they shot down the road
 Knowin' towin' a cannon, things could explode
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 Now a Cadillac was always an Elvis thing
 Polished chrome and gold it was the birth of bling
 They came with personality they made you a star
 God may have made the earth
 But man made that car
 
 Now all the way back to the time of James Dean
 Car crash songs chewed up heroes and machines
 Sick minds, stop signs and uncontrolled swerves
 But Early and his Caddy could handle killer curves
 So when the big top folded, Early took his last drive
 Moonvine kissed her boy goodbye, his exit had arrived
 She shot his ashes 'cross the Gulf from that ancient rusty gun
 Nomads know when the show is done
 And Earl's dead, he's been airmailed
 And that Eldorado's waitin' on the Tamiami Trail
 For some shameless entertainer to blow in like a gale
 Earl's dead – Cadillac for sale
 Earl's dead, Earl's dead