Name: Country Music Hall of Fame
Channel: Terry Baker
Description: "Country Music Hall of Fame" is a song by Mississippi River Band. Story 'bout a veteran musician that never could shake his childhood dream of being in the Country Music Hall of Fame.

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Story 'bout a veteran musician that never could shake his childhood dream of being in the Country Music Hall of Fame.

Mississippi River Band

Well its hard to describe us I think youd have to be looking for something else and just stumble on us

"It's been 20 years or more and it'll be 20 more before he gives it up. 'Cause it's not what he does no more, it's what he is and he loves and he lives it up." Country Music Hall of Fame That about says it.

Song Info

Genre

Country • Country General

Charts

Peak #270

Peak in subgenre #91

Author

Terry Baker

Rights

c 2000 Terry Baker

Uploaded

February 09, 2002

Track Files

MP3

MP3 1.9 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00

Story behind the song

I wrote the first half of this when I was a kid...the second half of it when I was a much older kid.  It's just about the dreams of musicians.

Lyrics

He sits out on the front porch, dreams his dreams and reads his music magazines.
And he sees himself on every page,standin' on a stage and playin' as he sings.
He plays at all the local shows and everywhere he goes they tell him that he's great. 
And all his friends agree that he could make the Grand Old Opry with a little break.

And he thinks that would be heaven,
if I could make the big time,
Oh, I'd never be the same,
if I could make that Country Music Hall of Fame.

Wearing fancy clothes and smoking imported cigars,
I'd have a home in Nashville
if I was a country star,
and all my dreams come true and I would be a house-hold name,
If I could make that country music hall of fame.

Now, it's been 20 years or more, and it'll be 20 more before he gives it up.
Cause it's not what he does no more,
it's what he is and what he loves and he lives it up.
And he thinks that soon he'll write a tune and it'll be a hit, surely then he'll be a star.
So each night he's in the spot light playing songs he wrote and strummin' on his old guitar.
Whatever it takes to be a country star.
Chorus

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