Daddy's Cup
Drive-By Truckers

Before I could walk, I had a wrench in my hand

I was my Mama's little angel, my Daddy's second chance

He went end over end, the first year he went pro

And he lost part of his eyesight, so he couldn't race, no more


But he never lost his touch when he got under a hood

He knew how to make them run, he knew one day he would

See his name in Victory lane and engraved on that cup

Just like all them other crazy fools with racing in their blood


He would put me on his lap when he'd drive and I'd take the wheel

He'd say What do you think about that, son? How does she feel?

You just wait till them, little legs get long enough to reach the gas

Once you put her on the floor, one time there ain't no turning back


Every Saturday, he'd take me out to the garage

He'd take an empty bucket, fill it full of engine parts

He's sit me down and pour 'em out in front of me on the floor

I'd have to tell him what each one was and what each one was for


We'd jump in his old car and go down to the race at night

He'd tell me what each driver was doing wrong, what each one did right

He could always pick the winner before they ever took a curve

Number three might have the car but forty three has got the nerve


Before I turned eighteen, Daddy said Now pretty soon

You'll be old enough to race when I'll leave it up to you

I taught you all about it, taught you everything I know

You gotta have a car to do it, you gotta work and buy your own


First one that I bought was a Mustang number two


Nobody kept 'em any longer than they kept a pair of shoes

They started showing up at every used car, lot in town

A V-eight on a Go-Cart, easy terms no money down


Me and Daddy and my uncle took her home and we tore her down

Checked her out real good, cleaned her up and bored her out

Took out all the seats, pulled the carpet off the floor

Knocked out all the glass and we welded up the doors


Well, the first time that I raced my qualifying was a shame

I started out way in the back and came back about the same

Pulled her in the pit, couldn't look my Daddy in the eye

He said If you quit now son, it's gonna haunt you all your life


See it ain't about the money or even being number one

You gotta know when it's all over, you did the best you could've done

Knowing that it's in you and you never let it out

Is worse than blowing any engine or any wreck you'll ever have


Since then I've wrecked a bunch of cars and I've broke a bunch of bones

It's anybody's race out there and I've learned to run my own

I'd shove 'em in the wall and I'd hit 'em from behind

I'd let them know that I was there, I'd let them know that track was mine


It's been several years since my Daddy passed away

But his picture's on my dash, every time I go to race

I lost more than I won but I ain't gonna give up

'Till they put me in the ground or Daddy's name's on that cup


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