A Backstage Pass - Early Version

There were wackos and weirdos 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
Mark Rothbaum got a call from Shooter Jennings
And Waylon left 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-beens and would-bes and never-weres
Paupers, punks, and millionaires, and me

And there were wackos and weirdos 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

Hell's Angels blocked the traffic to the building
In order for the beer truck to come through
And waiting 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?"

And there were wackos and weirdos 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