Featuring: John Hiatt, Joe Bonamassa

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