Cadillac Jack Favor
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.
2. And that's just what happened, he took pity
on two men,
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heading down to
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and
the thanks he did for helping them
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G
would make him wish he was busting broncs again.
He
dropped them off in
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that
vagabond commitee barely even had a plan.
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C
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.
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.
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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C
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.
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.
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.