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Speedtrap (Out of State Cars)
Hoyt Axton
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I'm the cop in a little bitty town and I don't get much pay
Oh, but I caught seventeen out-of-
State cars and four of my friends today
Yeah, I let the hometown boys go home, they paid five dollars bail
Oh, but all the drivers in the out-of-state cars had to go to jail
Well, they hollered and they moaned and they cried and they groaned
They all swore that they'd sue
But the judge was high and so was I and we needed the money too
Yeah, the judge and me got a deal, you see, we split the money fair
Except for thirty percent to the county
Seat to keep the law out of our hair
And old Charlie's working out real good down
At the corner store where the red light is
He sees them out-of-state plates two blocks away
And when they get right up on top of that green light
Old Charlie pushes that secret button
Underneath the corner drugstore counter
That yellow light only lasts for a tenth of a second
Yeah, the county pays me about forty
A week, ain't that the livin' end?
If it wasn't for them tourists in them out-
Of-state cars, I'd have no loot to spend
But the way it stands this year so far, I've made a hundred thou'
For a high school dropout, I'm a-doin'
Fine, I make more than the President now
'Course he's honest
So if you're driving down the road and flashing lights you see
If they're on top of a red Rolls-Royce, you can bet your boots it's me
'Cause I'm the cop in a little bitty town and I'd sure like to see
All you drivers in them out-of-state cars try to get by me
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