ARTIST: Shel Silverstein
TITLE: On the Cover of Rolling Stone
Lyrics and Chords


[Dr. Hook]

[As performed by Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show. Buck Owens did the country version, "On the Cover of the Music City News", a year later.]

Well we are big rock singers, we've got golden fingers
And we're loved everywhere we go
We sing about beauty and we sing about truth
At ten thousand dollars a show
We take all kind of pills to give us all kind of thrills
But the thrill we've never known
Is the thrill that'll get you when you get your picture
On the cover of the Rolling Stone

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{Refrain}
Rolling Stone
    Wanna see my picture on the cover
Rolling Stone
    Wanna buy five copies for my mother
Rolling Stone
    Wanna see my smilin' face
On the cover of the Rolling Stone

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I've got a freaky old lady name o' Cocaine Katy
Who embroiders on my jeans
I've got my poor old gray-haired Daddy
Drivin' my limousine
Now it's all designed to blow our minds
But our minds won't really be blown
Like the blow that'll get you when you get your picture
On the cover of the Rolling Stone

{Refrain}

We got a lot of little teenage blue-eyed groupies
Who do anything we say
We got a genuine Indian guru
He's teachin' us a better way
We got all the friends that money can buy
So we never have to be alone
And we keep gettin' richer but we can't get our picture
On the cover of the Rolling Stone

{Refrain}

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