Song #339: "One Piece At A Time"--Johnny Cash and The Tennessee Three (1976)

Some, including some hard core Johnny Cash fans, will consider this a "novelty" song. I certainly don't. I just think it's brilliant.

Cash hit the charts (and we bought the single) in 1976 with the story of a man who left Kentucky for Detroit and a career on the automobile assembly line, where he was the "wheel man" for Cadillac. He apparently didn't make enough money to purchase one of his own. So he, as he said, "devised myself a plan that should be the envy of most any man", deciding he'd somehow sneak pieces of the car out of the plant in his lunch box, hoping to complete the car "by the time I retired".

Gears and a fuel pump were first. A buddy of his used his mobile home as an accomplice to get the bigger parts out of dodge (pun intended).

Of course, over time, there were issues, as his developing car wasn't exactly one model year.

As for the rest? Find out below, and enjoy a gem from the Man in Black, who will return again on our countdown.  :)

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