Fired from the Opry for missing shows and suffering with excruciating back pain from a failed surgery, Hank embarks on his final road trip in a winter storm that blankets the South. Charles Carr, a first-year student at Auburn, is hired to drive the Olympic blue Cadillac convertible.

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When I was just 18, many years ago
I drove a man to Canton, to play a New Year's show
I never told a soul about that last, lonesome ride
The king of country music, I was with him when he died

He joked about the farmer's wife, his stories made me blush
Sleet hit the windshield, whitewalls plowed the slush
"Jambalaya" on the radio, I tried to sing along
He laughed when I mangled the French words in the song

They said, "Keep him off the booze", wasn't that a laugh?
Wouldn't leave Montgomery without a 6-pack
When he fell asleep, he snored like pedal steel
I heard the empties clinking every time I cranked the wheel

Looking back on it now, it still makes no sense
Any song of his sets me to crying
I was just a kid in over my head
And he was hell-bent on dying

Midnight in Mount Hope, his hand was stiff and cold
How could he leave us at 29 years old?
I never told a soul about that last, lonesome ride
The king of country music, I was with him when he died

The king of country music, I was with him… when he died