John Prine (Maywood, Illinois, 10 de octubre de 1946) es un cantautor de country y folk estadounidense con un amplio éxito, tanto de crítica como de público, desde la década de 1970.
Sus padres fueron William Prine y Verna Hamm. Su abuelo había sido guitarrista de Merle Travis y Prine se inició como guitarrista a los catorce años. Durante cinco años trabajó como cartero, e hizo el servicio militar antes de comenzar su carrera musical en Chicago.
¡Cuatro años de duro trabajo!Este mes de mayo cumplimos cuatro años al aire. Seguimos trabajando en la difusión de este maravilloso instrumento, ¡gracias por participar en nuestra historia!
Artist: John Prine Album: Great Days: The John Prine Anthology Disc 2 Year: 1993
Intro: E
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
Break: EABE
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
(Repeat Break)
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.