Joe Bonamassa, John Hiatt - Tennessee Plates lyrics

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 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 I'll have to wait
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 hotwired
We crossed the Mississippi like
An oil slick fire, yeah!
Yeah If they'd known what we was up
To they wouldn't let us in
Now we landed in Memphis like original sin
Elvis Presley Boulevard to
The Graceland gates
Oh, see we're lookin' for a
Cadillac with Tennessee plates

Man, there must have been a dozen
Of them parked in that garage
There wasn't one Lincoln and
There wasn't one Dodge
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 that wild weekend
Anyway he wouldn't care
Hell he gave them to his friends

This ain't no hotel I'm writin' you from
The Tennessee prison up at Brushy Mountain
Where yours sincerely's doin' five to eight
Stampin' out my time makin' Tennessee plates