Johnny Cash: Ballad of a Teenage Queen Meaning

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Song Released: 1958

Ballad of a Teenage Queen Lyrics

There's a story in our town
Of the prettiest girl around
Golden hair and eyes of blue
How those eyes could flash at you (how those eyes could flash at you)
Boys hung 'round her by the score
But she loved the boy next door who worked at the...

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Feb 23rd 2015 !⃝
This song talks about how this girl is adored by everyone but she loved this one boy at the candystore. Then, she gets signed to a movie company in hollywood and left the boy to be rich and famous because she thought it would be so great. Well, she had everything and then some, but she was missing the boy she loved back home. So she left all her riches and fame to marry the boy back home, and the song ends

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