Riding With The King
Performed by Eric Clapton and BB King
From the album "Riding With The King"
I dreamed I had a good job and I got well paid
I blew it all on the penny arcade
A hundred dollars on a cupid doll
No pretty chick is gonna make me crawl
And on the TWA to the promised land
Every woman, child and man
Gets a Cadillac and a great big diamond ring
Don't you know you're riding with the king
He's on a mission and mercy to the new frontier
He's gonna take us all out of here
Up to that mansion on a hill
Where you can get you prescription filled (any kind of pill folks)
And on the TWA to the promised land
(Everybody)Everybody clap your hands(clap your hands)
And don't you go for the way that it seems
Don't you know you're riding with the king
You're riding with the king
Don't you know you're riding with the king
Tough steel and a shiny big twenty five (that's me)
You can see it in his face, the blues is alive
Tonight everybody's getting their angel wings
Don't you know you're riding with the king
Spoken verse:
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I stepped out of Mississippi when I was ten years oldwith a suit cut as sharp as a razor and a heart of gold
I had a guitar hanging just about waist high
And I'm gonna play this thing until the day I die"
Don't you know you're riding with the king
Don't you know you're riding with the king
Don't you know you're riding with the king
You're riding - You're riding with the king
You're riding - You're riding with the king
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