"Daddy Never Was the Cadillac Kind" is a song written by Dave Gibson and Bernie Nelson, and recorded by American country music band Confederate Railroad.
It was released in 1994 as the lead-off single from their album Notorious.
The song is about the narrator's father, who rejects the concepts of material wealth when his son purchases a Cadillac automobile.
In the final verse, the father dies and his body is driven off in the same Cadillac to his burial site.
[2] The music video was directed by Martin Kahan, and is entirely in black and white.