John Prine (born October 10, 1946 in Maywood, Illinois-died April 7, 2020 in Nashville, Tennessee) was an American country/folk singer-songwriter who has achieved widespread critical (and some commercial) success since the early 1970s.
The son of William Prine and Verna Hamm, his grandfather had played guitar with Merle Travis and he started playing guitar himself at 14 years old. He was a postman for 5 years and spent a couple of years in the army before starting his musical career in the Chicago area.
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Artist: John Prine Album: Great Days: The John Prine Anthology Disc 2 Year: 1993
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E February morning, my car won't start today E I turned the key at 8:03 and the battery passed away E Inside a' my automobile E I want my automobile E I want my automobile BE I want to drive it all around this world
E Bride's gettin' married in the Springtime E Widow's gettin married in the Fall E I got married in high school E Or I wouldn't of got married at all E I'd be drivin' my automobile E Be drivin' my automobile E Be drivin' my automobile BE I wanna drive it all around this world
E Everybody said to the new groom E Groom, what ya gonna be E I said I'm gonna be a symphony E Just as soon as I find a key E To my automobile E I want my automobile E I want my automobile BE All around this world
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E Columbus sailed the ocean E Moses parted the sea E Dolores left me yesterday E Well, I think she took the key E To my automobile E I want my automobile E I want my automobile BE Wanna drive it all around this world
E Now I held a little bitty baby E I held a woman all night E Whenever I get the hiccups E I hold my breath 'til my head gets light E Then I drive my automobile E Yeah I drive my automobile E I drive my automobile BE I'm want to drive it all around this world
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E February morning, my car won't start today E I turned the key at 8:03 and the battery passed away E Inside a' my automobile E I want my automobile E I want my automobile BE I want to drive it all around this world
(Spoken) It is a beautiful day for a ride Hey, get your head down I can't see anything Someone give me a cigarette I don't want to take my hands off the wheel We ought to take the air filter off this sucker. So we can see what it will really do. Uh oh, it looks to me like a HOS-PITAL Zone Everybody get quiet. Shhhhhhhh. Don't wake the dead up. We're almost out. Hang on. Uh Oh here we go. Well, you can just hold it until we get to the next town.