BACKSTAGE PASS (TO A WILLIE NELSON SHOW)
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Hello, I'm Johnny Cash One night I had a backstage pass To a Willie Nelson show
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There were wackoes and weirdoes and dingbats and dodoes
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And athletes and movie stars and David Allan Coe
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There was leather and lace and every minority race
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With a backstage pass to the Willie Nelson show
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Kristofferson got an offer for a movie
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Promoters closed another deal or two
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Waylon got a call from his son Shooter
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And he went home the minute he was through
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I moved with the mob at intermission
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To the green room where you see who you can see
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There were has-been's and would-be's and never-were's
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Paupers, punks and millionaires and me
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There were wackoes and weirdoes and dingbats and dodoes
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And athletes and movie stars and David Allan Coe
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There was leather and lace and every minority race
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With a backstage pass to the Willie Nelson show
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Hell's Angels blocked the traffic to the building
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In order for the beer truck to come through
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And waitin' in the wings to sing with Willie
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Were hopeful stars of flickering magnitude
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There was a singer Willie knew back in the fifties
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Who once paid him fifty dollars for a song
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There were women who once did and some who still would
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I heard one ask, "Did Connie come along?"
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There were wackoes and weirdoes and dingbats and dodoes
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And athletes and movie stars and David Allan Coe
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There was leather and lace and every minority race
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With a backstage pass to the Willie Nelson show
I wish, you could've been there But maybe you were
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