Cadillac Jack Favor

 

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1. He's Cadillac Jack Favor and the name rings true,

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     if he's got a ride any stranger would, too,

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    the one bad habit that his Ponder would say

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     is sure gonna put him through the trials one day.

 

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2. And that's just what happened, he took pity on two men,

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     heading down to Louisiana, he stopped and let them in,

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     and the thanks he did for helping them

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     would make him wish he was busting broncs again.

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    He dropped them off in Bossieer City where they met up with a man,

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    that vagabond commitee barely even had a plan.

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    It was just a simple robbery turned double homicide,

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    they got away with murder, it'd be someone else's hide.

 

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3. Almost two years come and gone, they never solved that crime,

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     'til they found one of our vagabonds already doing time,

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 when that jailbird started singing, they all knew the words were wrong,

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     but the sheriff and the DA and the judge all sang along.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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4. They pinned it on Jack Favor, gave him life without parole

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    gave Jack's freedom to the jailbird, payment on the lies he told,

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   just so happens that election year everybody paid out at the polls.

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    Cadillac's no fallen hero, and he's never gonna break,

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    when it comes to prison rodeo, there'll be no easy eight.

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    And if you want the definition of the picture-perfect frame,

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    it'd be in the dictionary underneath Jack Favor's name.

 

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    Cadillac's no fallen hero, and he's never gonna break,

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    when it comes to prison rodeo, there's still no easy eight.

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    And if you want the definition of the picture-perfect frame,

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    it'd be in the dictionary underneath Jack Favor's name.

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    Yeah, it's the world's most crooked picture,

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    and when it comes to being framed,

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    Cadillac Jack Favor should be in the hall of fame.

 

    (Clint Black)