Album: The River (1980)

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• Well, there she sits buddy just a gleaming in the sun
  There to greet a working man when his day is done
  I'm gonna pack my pa and I'm gonna pack my aunt
  I'm gonna take them down to the Cadillac ranch
  
  Eldorado fins, baby, whitewalls in skirts
  Rides just like my little bit of heaven here on earth
  Well, buddy, when I die throw my body in the back
  Drive me to the junkyard in my Cadillac
  
  Cadillac, Cadillac
  Long and dark shiny and black
  Open up your engines, let 'em roar
  Tearing up the highway like a big old dinosaur
  
  James Dean in that mercury '49
  Junior Johnson runnin' through the woods of Caroline
  Even Burt Reynolds in that black Trans Am
  All gonna meet down at the Cadillac ranch
  
  Cadillac, Cadillac
  Long and dark, shiny and black
  Open up them engines let 'em roar
  Tearing up the highway like a big old dinosaur
  
  Hey little girlie, in the blue jeans so tight
  Drivin' alone through the Wisconsin night
  You're my last love, baby, you're my last chance
  Don't let 'em take me to the Cadillac ranch
  
  Cadillac, Cadillac
  Long and dark, shiny and black
  Pulled up to my house today
  Came and took my little girl away
  
  Oh baby, come home
  Oh baby, come back
  Oh yeah
  Come home Writer/s: Bruce Springsteen
  Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 10

• Sf from NyHeard for the 3,000th time today. Still love it....Crazy question...Any chance Bruce saying his wife/GF died? it just hit me for the first time. He has said that he likes the upbeat songs to deliver sad stories, a la "Hungry Heart" and "Girls in Summer Clothes", among others. "Black caddy (hearse?) came and took my little girl away.."
  Just a thought
• Jim from Long Beach, CaGreat song and always a show-stopper at his shows when played..
• Gregory from Buena Vista, CoBruce wrote an especially good 'car song' at a time when they had been omitted from Pop/Rock Music for several years...the verse "...Junior Johnson bombin' through the woods of Caroline..." refers to Junior running moonshine in his souped up Ford, the precursor to NASCAR racing. James Dean and Burt Reynolds get mentioned as additional 'Gearhead' idols. Dean, of course, died in his Porsche sports car, while Burt made a ton of money, along with Pontiac, from his black Firebird TransAm in the 'Smokey & the Bandit' movies.
  
• Pat from Albuquerque, NmI drove by the real Cadillac Ranch two weeks ago and stopped to take a couple pictures. It's still just off I-40 west of Amarillo TX near a Love's truck stop. The cars are covered with paint, and two high school girls were adding even more paint to the west most car while I was there.
• M.j. from Calgary, Abnot to take away from bruce springsteen as a singer but the nitty gritty dirt band version is 10 times better then his.
• Pat from Albuquerque, NmBrian--I think Bruce has said that, with the exception of songs about Patti Scialfa and Julianne Phillips, all the girls/women in his songs are fictional and aren't based on anyone.
• Darrell from EugeneChris Le Doux recorded a country song called "Cadillac Ranch" in the late 1980s, but it was about opening a bar on an old cattle ranch instead of death and dying. It has nothing in common other than the gender of the singer and the title.
• Sheldon from Toronto, CanadaRead a bit deeper into the lyrics..The cadillac ranch is a burial to "dead" cadillacs. The song is a simple statement of death and how we are all going to meet at the cadillac ranch ....
• Brian from Meriden, CtVery cool. I wonder if the "little girlie in the blue jeans so tight, driving alone through the Wisconsin night" was anyone in particular.
• Kyle from Belleville, CanadaLove this song. I want to hear it live one day. I think i'd go crazy lol

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