Backstage Pass

Hello I'm Johnny Cash

One night I had a backstage pass to the Willie Nelson Show

There were wackoes and weirdoes and dingbats and dodoes

And athletes and movie stars and David Allan Coe

There was leather and lace and every minority race

With a backstage pass to the Willie Nelson Show

Kristofferson got an offer for a movie promoters closed another deal or two

Waylon got a call from his son Shooter and he went home the minute he was through

I moved with the mob at intermission

To the green room where you see who you can see

There were has-been's and would-be's and never-were's

Paupers punks and millionaires and me

And there were wackoes...

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Hells Angels blocked the traffic to the building

In order for the beer truck to come through

And waitin' in the wings to sing with Willie were hopeful stars of flickering magnitude

There was a singer Willie knew back in the fifties

Who once paid him fifty dollars for a song

There were women who once did and some who still would

I heard one ask did Connie come along

And there were wackoes...

I wish you could've been there well maybe you were