Bill Martin

(Jody Stecher and Bill Martin)

 

Frankie said to Johnny “Better treat me right.”

She shot him when she caught him with Nellie one night

Rooty toot toot through the hardwood door

She made her getaway in a ragtop Ford. 

 

Ragtop, she had a ragtop Ford

Ragtop, it was a ragtop Ford

Ragtop

There ain’t no way to catch her in a rag top ford. 

 

All I ever dreamed of when I was seventeen

Cruising down the highway in a Ford machine

A whole heap of horses, flames on the door

A suped up rider, a Ragtop Ford

 

Ragtop gotta have a ragtop Ford

Ragtop gotta be a ragtop Ford 

Saving up my money for a ragtop Ford

 

Duncan said to Brady “You're doing me wrong.

Busting in the barroom with the game going on

You're knocking down the windows, you're breaking down the door

And you're zooming round my barroom in your ragtop Ford"

 

Zoom Ba-room, been on the job too long

Ragtop, it was a sad sad song

Now you're lying dead on the bar room floor

Took Brady to the graveyard in a ragtop Ford

 

Eve ate the apple, Adam did the same

The Lord got angry, Adam got ashamed

Banned from the garden by the order of the Lord

They peeled out of Eden in a ragtop Ford

 

Ragtop, it was a ragtop Ford

Ninety miles an hour in a ragtop Ford

They’re gonna move to Kansas City in a ragtop Ford

 

Wee Willie Winkie he’s driving through the town

Rumbling like a freight train with the top rolled down

Rattling all the windows, shaking up the lock

Everybody out of bed it’s only ten o’clock

 

In a ragtop, in a ragtop Ford

Ragtop, he’s outta his gourd

Ragtop

He’s honking Cucaracha in his ragtop Ford

 

Me and my baby got into a fight

I did all I could do till I could make it right

The next thing I know I hear a slamming door

Oh, man…  She took my ragtop Ford

 

Ragtop she took my ragtop Ford

Ragtop, ragtop Ford

Ragtop 

Pedal to the metal in my ragtop Ford.