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Shel Silverstein - A Front Row Seat To Hear Ole Johnny Sing
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Now you know some fellahs, they want fame and fortune 
Yeah, and other fellahs they just wanna swing 
But all I wanted all my life 
Was a TV set and a truck and a wife 
And a front row seat to hear ole Johnny sing. 

Yeah the TV and the truck I got on credit. 
And I got that girl with a little old Woolworth ring 
And life was warm and life was sweet 
But still, it was kinda incomplete 
Without a front row seat to hear ole Johnny sing. 

chorus: 
Hey, John you walk the line, 
Do "Deelia" one more time 
And when you do them Cottonfields 
You warm this heart of mine. 

So, one day I thought, Hey, I`m gonna do it! 
(That`s what I said) 
So, I mortgaged the farm and pawned her wedding ring. 
I sold the gold tooth out of my mouth 
And jumped in the pickup and headed South. 
For a front row seat to hear ole Johnny sing. 

I hit Nashville cold and wet and hungry. 
I said, "I`m here, bring him on let him do his thing." 
But they told me down at the Old Pit Grill 
I`d have to go all the way to Andersonville 
For a front row seat to hear ole Jonny sing. 

I found his house knocked on the door and it was opened 
By a brown-haired girl and a baby with a teethin` ring. 
I said "I seen you somewhere before 
but don`t stand there and block the door 
I want a front row seat to hear ole Johnny sing." 

(chorus) 

She said I`d have to go down to The Opry 
And the feller there said I`d have to wait till Spring. 
He said, "We`ve been sold out for months and months 
And this poor insane fellah wants 
A front row seat to hear ole Johnny sing." 

Well, he said a couple more things, and I started cryin` 
And then he laughed at me and that`s when I started to swing. 
Well I bust through the doors in a roaring rage, 
Crawled over the crowd till I reached the stage 
For a front row seat to hear ole Johnny sing. 

(chrous) 

Then some crazy guard started shootin` 
I shot back, and the next thing I know I was winged 
and on the floor 
When a guy in a voice kinda deep and low 
Says, "Boy that`s a mighty long way to go 
For a front row seat to hear ANYBODY sing." 

And I guess that judge, he weren`t no music lover. 
I got fifteen months but that don`t mean a thing. 
Cos` yesterday in the prison yard 
A show come through and HAR! de HAR! 
I had a front row seat to hear ole Johnny sing. 

(chorus plus some typical Shel ranting and raving)
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