My pappy said, "Son, you're gonna drive me to drinkin'   If you don't stop drivin' that Hot Rod Lincoln"      Have you heard this story of the Hot Rod Race?   When the Fords and the Lincolns were settin' the pace   That story is true, I'm here to say   'Cause I was drivin' that Model A      It's got a Lincoln motor and it's really souped up   That Model A body makes it look like a pup   It's got eight cylinders, and use them all   Got overdrive, just won't stall      With four barrel carbs and a dual exhaust   With four-eleven gears you can really get lost   Got safety tubes, but I ain't scared   The brakes are good, tires fair      We pulled out of San Pedro late one night   The moon and the stars were shinin' bright   We was drivin' up on Grapevine Hill   Passing cars like they were standing still      All of a sudden in a wink of an eye   A Cadillac sedan passed us by   I said, "Boys, that's a mark for me"   By then the tail light was all you could see      Now the fellas all ribbed me for bein' behind   So I thought I'd make the Lincoln unwind   Took my foot off the gas and man alive   I shoved it on down into overdrive      Well I wound it up to a hundred-and-ten   My speedometer said that I'd hit top end   My foot was glued like lead to the floor   That's all there is, there ain't no more      Now the boys all thought I'd lost my sense   And telephone poles looked like a picket fence   They said, "Slow down, I see spots   The lines on the road just look like dots"      We took a corner, sideswiped a truck   And I crossed my fingers just for luck   My fenders was clickin' the guardrail posts   And the guy beside me was white as a ghost      Smoke was comin' from out of the back   When I started to gain on that Cadillac   I knew I could catch him and I thought I could pass   Don't you know by then we'd be low on gas      We had flames comin' from out of the side   Even feel the tension, man, what a ride   I said, "Look out, boys, I've got a license to fly"   And that Caddy pulled over and let us by      Now all of a sudden she started to knockin'   Down in the dips she started to rockin'   I looked in the mirror, red light was blinkin'   The cops were after my Hot Rod Lincoln      Well, they arrested me and they put me in jail   They called my pappy to throw my bail   And he said, "Son, you're gonna drive me to drinkin'   If you don't stop drivin' that Hot Rod Lincoln"