One night I had a backstage pass to a Willie Nelson Show
Refrain: There were whackers and weird owls and dingbats and dodos 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, would-be's and never-were's Paupers, punks and millionaires and me
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Hell's 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
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I wish you could've been there, ha, maybe you were, - ha
