Maybellene

(album: Rockin' And Shakin' - 1972)

Maybellene, why can't you be true?
Oh Maybellene, why can't you be true?
You've started back doing the things you used to do

As I was motivating over the hill
I saw Maybellene in a coup de ville
A Cadillac a-rolling on the open road
Nothing will outrun my V8 Ford
The cadillac doing 'bout ninety-five
She's bumper to bumber rolling side by side

Maybellene, why can't you be true?
Oh Maybellene, why can't you be true?
You've started back doing the things you used to do

The cadillac moved to a hundred and four
Got hot and wouldn't do no more
It got cloudy and started to rain
Tooted my horn in the passing lane
The rain water blowin all under my hood
I knew that was doing my motor no good

Maybellene, why can't you be true?
Oh Maybellene, why can't you be true?
You've started back
doing the things you used to do.

Maybellene, why can't you be true?
Oh Maybellene, why can't you be true?
You've started back doing the things you used to do

The motor cooled down, the heat went down
And that's when I heard that highway sound
The Cadillac a-sitting like a ton of lead
A hundred and ten a half a mile ahead
The Cadillac looking like it's sitting still
And I caught Mabellene at the top of the hill

Maybellene, why can't you be true?
Oh Maybellene, why can't you be true?
You've started back doing the things you used to do
You've started back doing the things you used to do