The Cover of the Rolling Stone (released 1973)
Written by: Shel Silverstein
Performed by: Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show

Well we're big rock singers, we 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 kinda pills to give us all kinda thrills
But the thrill we've never known
Is the thrill that'll gitcha when ya get your picture
On the cover of the Rolling Stone

REFRAIN: Rolling Stone - Gonna see my picture on the cover
Rolling Stone - Gonna buy five copies for my mother
Rolling Stone - Gonna see my smilin' face
On the cover of the Rolling Stone

I got a freaky ol' lady, name o' Cocaine Katy
Who embroiders on my jeans
I got my poor ol' 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 gitcha when ya get your picture
On the cover of the Rolling Stone
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We got a lotta little teenage blue-eyed groupies
Who'll 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
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