Cover of the Rolling Stone

Don't ask. I just can have a somewhat twisted sense of music and now the thought just came to my mind that Shel Silverstein wrote the song. I know he wrote Johnny Cash's "A Boy Named Sue". Yep Shel Silverstein did write "Cover of the Rolling Stone" Well that explains it. Now if I could only read "Where the Sidewalk Ends" and "A Light in the Attic". The name of the song is "Cover of the Rolling Stone" and it was released in 1973 by Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show. It peaked at #6 on the U.S. pop chart.It satirizes the music industry, at a time when this could be done

I swear the one who sings the second verse sounds like a bad Conway Twitty.

 DR HOOK & the MEDICINE SHOW'S  

 COVER OF TTHE ROLLING STONE

(SPOKEN)

 I don't believe it

 Don't touch me

 Hey Ray, hey Sugar

 Tell them who we are

(SUNG)

Well we're big rock singers 

 We got golden fingers

 And we're loved everywhere we go

(That sounds like us)

 We sing about beauty

 And we sing about truth

 At ten thousnd dollars a show (Right)

 We take all kinds of pills

 That give us all kind of thrills

 But the thrill we've never known 

Is the thrill that'll get you 

 On the cover of the Rolling Stone

 Rolling Stone,

 Wanna see my picture on the cover

 Rolling Stone

 Wanna by buy five copies for my mother (Yes)

 Rolling Stone,

 (Stone) Wanna see my smilin' face

 On the cover of the Rolling Stone.

 I've got a freaky old lady name o' Cocaine Katy

 Who embroiders all my jeans

 I've got my poor gray haired Daddy 

 Drivin' my limousine.

 Now it's all designed to blow our minds

 But our mind won't really be blown

 Like the blow that'll get you when you get your picture

 On the cover of the Rolling Stone.  

Rolling Stone,

Wanna see my picture on the cover (Stone)

Rolling Stone

 I want to buy five copies for my mother (Yes) 

Rolling Stone,

(Stone) Wanna see my smilin' face

 On the cover of the Rolling Stone

 We got a lot of little teenage

blue-eyed groupies

 Who do anything we say

  We got genuine Indian guru 

He's teachin' us a better way

 We've got all kind of friends that money can buy

 So we never have to be alone.

We keep gettin' richer

 But we can't get our picture

On the Cover of the Rolling Stone.

 Rolling Stone

 Wanna see my picture on the cove(Stone)

Wanna buy five copies for my mother (I want one) 

(Stone) Wanna see my smiling face on the cover of the Rolling Stone

 On the cover of the Rolling...(Stone(and us) )

 Wanna see my picture on the cover

 (I don't know why we ain't on the cover, baby)

 (Stone) Wanna buy five copies for my mother

 (We're beautiful fellows) (Stone)

 Wanna see my smilin' face

on the cover of the Rolling Stone

(SPOKEN)

 I ain't kiddin' ya

 We would make a beautiful cover

 Fresh shot, right up front man

I can see it now, we'd be on the front, smilin' man Aah, beautiful.