Bruce Springsteen Tribute - Lebanese Tribute to Bruce Springsteen

PINK CADILLAC^©

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Now you may think I'm foolish
For the foolish things I do
You may wonder how I can love you
When you get on my nerves like you do
Well baby you know you bug me
Ain't no secret 'bout that
Well come on over here and hug me
And baby I'll spill the facts
Honey it ain't your money
'Cause I got plenty of that
I love you for your pink Cadillac
Crushed velvet seats
Low in the back
Oozing down the street
Waving to the girls
Feeling out of sight
Spending all my money
On a Saturday night
Honey I just wonder what it feels like in the back
Of your pink Cadillac

Now way back in the Bible
Temptations always come along
Always somebody tempting you
From doing something right into doing something you know is wrong
They tempt you, mister, with silver
They tempt you with gold
They tempt you with the pleasures
That the flesh does hold
They say Eve tempted Adam with an apple
Ain't no way the poor fool went for that
Can you imagine what would have happened if she'd just stepped back
And showed him her pink Cadillac
Crushed velvet seats
Sitting low in the back
Oozing down the street
Waving to the girls
Feeling out of sight
Spending all my money
On a Saturday night
Now honey I just wonder what you do there in the back
Of your pink Cadillac
Pink Cadillac

Now some folks say that it's too big
Uses too much gas
Some say that it's too old
And it goes too fast
But honey, my love is bigger than a Honda
It's bigger than some Subaru
And that car, he's got something
And there ain't nothing else will do
Anyway we don't have to drive it
We can just park it out in back
And have a party in your pink Cadillac

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Now I ain't getting married in no church
'Cause to me a church ain't nothing but a shack
I want it in your pink Cadillac
Pink Cadillac
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Pink Cadillac
Now I want my soul to go to heaven
Baby, that's a fact
But while I'm doing my time here on earth
I want my body ridin' in the back
Baby of a pink Cadillac
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Page last updated: 11 Jun 2010

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Springsteen recorded a home demo of PINK CADILLAC on or around 03 Jan 1982 at at Thrill Hill East, Springsteen's home studio in Colt's Neck, NJ. The recording, with Springsteen accompanied by his acoustic guitar only, was cut on a four-track cassette recorder which later became known as the famous Nebraska demo tape of Jan 1982.

Following The River Tour, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band were supposed to start recording the next album in New York City in February 1982. Bruce decided to record multi-channel, professional sounding, finished demos of some songs he had written during the period. He felt the upcoming band sessions would progress faster than they had for his previous three albums if he records these finished demos and demonstrates them to The E Street Band.

To achieve his goal, in December 1981, he asks his guitar technician, Mike Batlan, to set up a no frills "porta-studio" in a spare room of his home in Colt's Neck, NJ. Some modification work was done to the room making it more receptive to achieving a decent sound. Batlan purchased a Teac Tascom (Series 144) 4-track cassette recorder, two SM57's microphones, and two microphone stands. The sound was mixed through an old Gibson Echoplex, and an old Panasonic boom box acted as the mix-down deck.

The four-track cassette recorder that Bruce Springsteen used to record his famous Nebraska demo tape of Jan 1982

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Springsteen recorded during the first few days of January, with most of the songs cut in one all day/night session on 03 Jan 1982. There were 15 songs recorded on tape, and some of them were recorded 2 or 3 times in slightly different arrangements. The tape was never conceived to result in a commercially released album, as the songs were recorded by the E Street Band with multi-instrument arrangements, during what's known as the "Electric Nebraska Session". However two or three months later, Springsteen recorded two additional songs (MY FATHER'S HOUSE and THE BIG PAYBACK) at home on the same equipment – thus making a total of 17 different songs.

Most of the E Street Band arrangements of these songs were discarded and the original solo demos from the tape were released on the Nebraska album. But Max Weinberg revealed to Rolling Stone in June 2010 that the recording of the "Electric Nebraska Session" does exist. He said that "the E Street Band actually did record all of Nebraska and it was killing [...] It was all very hard-edged. As great as it was, it wasn't what Bruce wanted to release. There is a full band Nebraska album, all of those songs are in the can somewhere."

PINK CADILLAC was among the very few that were released in their electrical form. The Jan 1982 acoustic demo of PINK CADILLAC can now be found on The Lost Masters Vol. 1 (Labour Of Love) bootleg, and the above lyrics are for that demo.

Bruce Springsteen -- The Lost Masters Vol. 1 (Labour Of Love)

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