FRONT ROW SEAT TO HEAR OLE JOHNNY SING

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Song Title
FRONT ROW SEAT TO HEAR OLE JOHNNY SING
Writers
Silverstein
Publisher
EVIL EYE MUSIC, INC. (BMI)
% Publisher Controls
100%
Territory Controlled
WORLD
Themes/Keywords
Angry, Energetic, Folk, Men, Music Reference, Quick, Story
Lyrics
Now you know some fellows they want fame and fortune
Yeah and other fellows 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 ol’ Johnny Sing

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

Hey John do “walk the line”
Do “Delia” one more time
When you do “them cotton fields”
You warm this heart of mine

So one day I thought “hey I’m gonna do it”
So I mortgaged the farm and pawned her wedding ring
And jumped in the pickup and headed south
A front row seat to hear ol’ 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 Hendersonville
For a front row seat to hear ol’ Johnny sing

I found this house knocked on the door and it was opened
By a brown haired girl and a baby with a teethin’ ring
I said “I’ve seen you somewhere before
But don’t stand there and lock the door”
I want a front row seat to hear ol’ Johnny sing

Hey John do “walk the line”
Do “Delia” one more time
Cause when you do “them cotton fields”
You warm this heart of mine

She said I’d have to go down to the opry
And the fellow there said I’d have to wait til spring
He said “we’ve been sold out for months and months
And this poor insane fellow wants
A front row seat to hear ol’ 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 roarin’ rage
Crawled over the crowd til I reached the stage
For a front row seat to hear ol’ Johnny sing

Hey John do “walk the line”
Do “Delia” one more time
And when you do that “ring of fire”
You warm this heart of mine

Then some crazy guard started shootin
I shot back and the next thing I knew
I was winged (I’m 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
‘Cause yesterday in the prison yard
A show comes through and har-dee-har
I had a front row seat to hear ol’ Johnny sing

Hey John do “walk the line”
Do “Delia” one more time
And when you do “them cotton fields”
You warm this heart of mine

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