The Everly Brothers – Always Drive A Cadillac (Guitar)

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It was the Senior High School yearbook

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The class of '63

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I'll never forget the way you gave

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Your book and pen to me

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It was all talked out and settled

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You knew I'd understand

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A girl with dreams as big as yours

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Just had to make some plans

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So I turned to your best picture:

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"Most likely to succeed"

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The only one in the whole damn book

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That didn't show you with me

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And it said that you liked inner strength

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So I tried to be true to form

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And I hid my teenage broken heart

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Instead I signed this poem:

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"I hope you always drive a Cadillac

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I hope you always drink champagne

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I hope you always shine with the sunshine

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I hope you never have to face the rain

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Unless the clouds are lined with silver

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May every heart you meet be gold

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And may you find the world as kind as you've been told"

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All the news of you that got back home

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Was no surprise to me

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You came, you saw, you conquered

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At every turn there were victories

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And the men came and the men went

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And some of them might have stayed

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But their dreams weren't silk or linen

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And their invitations weren't engraved

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At the ten-year class reunion

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They read your personal note

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And enlarged your cover photograph

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In your full-length sable coat

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But the words underneath the picture

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Were what mattered most to me

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There was something in between the lines

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That no one else could see

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It said, "I always drive a Cadillac

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I always drink champagne

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And if you make time while the sun shines

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You can buy your way out of the rain

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I travel fast because I go alone

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Everybody gets bought and sold

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And I wondered if you'd really become that cold"

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That was the last word anyone heard from you

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Until I got your card today

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A single line and signature

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That said "I'm coming home to stay"

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I wonder what life has done to you

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I wonder why you thought of me

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But if you stop by to say hello

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I wonder what you'll think if you see

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An old ragged high school yearbook

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That falls open to just one page

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With a picture of a young girl's face

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Full of beauty, dreams and rage

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But the words underneath the picture

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Is the verse that's still so true

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It's the one I swore no one would read

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Unless I showed it to you

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To me, you always drive a Cadillac

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Your laughter is my champagne

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And you'll carry my heart wherever you go

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Even if I never see you again

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But if you bring it back home to me

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Maybe then it'll mean you know

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That the strongest love's the love that lets you go

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To me, you always drive a Cadillac

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Your laughter is my champagne

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And you'll carry my heart wherever you go

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Even if I never see you again

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But if you bring it back home to me

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Maybe then it'll mean you know

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That the strongest love's the love that lets you go

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I hope you always drive a Cadillac

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I hope you always drive a Cadillac