Riding With The King

Album: Riding With The King (2000)
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  • I dreamed I had a good job and I got well paid
    I blew it all at the penny arcade
    A hundred dollars on a Kewpie doll
    No pretty chick is going to make me crawl

    Get on a TWA to the promised land
    Every woman, child and man
    Gets a Cadillac and a great big diamond ring
    Don't you know you're riding with the king?

    He's on a mission of mercy to the new frontier
    He's going to check us all on out of here
    Up to that mansion on a hill
    Where you can get your prescription filled

    Get on a TWA to the promised land
    Everybody, everybody clap your hands
    And don't you doubt, love, the way that he sings
    Don't you know you're riding with the king?
    Riding with the king
    Don't you know you're riding with the king?

    A tuxedo and a shiny 335
    You can see it in his face, the blues never lie
    Tonight everybody's getting their angel wings
    And don't you know we're riding with the king?
    I stepped out of Mississippi when I was ten years old
    With a suit cut sharp as a razor and a heart made of gold
    I had a guitar hanging just about waist high
    And I'm going to play this thing until the day I die

    Don't you know we're riding with the king?
    Don't you know we're riding with the king?
    Riding, you're riding with the king
    You're riding, you're riding with the king Writer/s: John Hiatt
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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