The Man in the Back of the Baby Blue Cadillac
Bert Guy and the Up All Night Band
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The Man in the Back of the Baby Blue Cadillac
c/r Bert Guy Music 2007
Intro: Instramental
Verse 1
Well, I'd been back from Auburn
December of fifty-two
It was my first semester freshman year
I was lookin' for something to do
Well my dad said 'I gotta man here
Needs a ride to Ohio
He's got a guitar and a carton of beer
And now he's got to gotta go'
Chorus 1
Son I got his car out back
Yeah I got his car out back
The car out back is a baby blue Cadillac
Verse 2
Well, I knew I'd seen his face before
Or heard him sing on the radio
But right then he didn't look so good
And he was moving kinda slow
He looked high and lonesome
And weary to his boots
And he pulled a blue duster tight
Over a singing cowboy suit
Verse 3
We pulled over north of there
As it began to snow
We were well short of Tennessee
A long way from Ohio
And the man there, pumping gas
Kept staring through the glass
He knew he'd seen that face before
But never without his hat
Chorus
He said, ' who's that man in the back?'
' Yeah, who's that man in the back?'
'Yeah the man in the back of your baby blue Cadillac'
Instramental: Verse, chorus, verse , verse , chorus
Verse 4
We stayed on in Memphis
Andrew Johnson Hotel
Some doc had to come and give him a shot
Cause his back was giving him hell
And he woke up sleeping in his clothes
Some guy from Ohio
(who said) 'you gotta be here New Year's night
Or turn around and go home'
Chorus
So the porters put him in the back
They put him right there in the back
They put him in the back of the baby blue Cadillac
More Instramental: Verse, chorus
Verse 5
New Year's Day broke clear and cold
As we entered West V A
But my friend just wouldn't say a word
And he was lookin' kinda gray
So I turned that car around and pumped the gas
And high--tailed it back to town..
(Dramatic pause)
But the doc could only shake his head (and say)
'We can't help you, he's just dead'
Chorus
So he died right there in the back
Yeah he died right there in the back
He died in the back of the baby blue Cadillac
