Chords for Johnny Cash - Ballad Of A Teenage Queen (1957) & Answer Song.

[B] _ Dream on, dream on, teenage [C#] queen, [B] prettiest girl we've ever seen.
There's a story [E] in [B] our town of the prettiest girl around.
Golden hair and eyes of blue, how [F#] those eyes could [B] please you.
How those eyes could please you.
Boys hung around her by the store, but she loved the boy next door,
who worked at [F#] the [B] candy store.
Dream on, dream on, teenage queen, prettiest girl we've ever seen.
She was tops in all they said, had never once [F#] went to [B] her head.
She had everything it seemed, not a [F#] careless [B] teenage queen.
Not a careless teenage queen.
Other boys could offer more, but she [F#] loved the boy [B] next door,
who worked [F#] at the candy [B] store.
Dream on, dream on, teenage queen, you should be a movie queen.
He would marry her next spring, save his money, bought a ring.
Then one day a movie scout came to [F#] town to [B] take her out.
Came to town to take her out.
Hollywood could offer more, so she left the boy next door,
working at the candy store.
Dream on, [Em] dream on, teenage [B] queen, see you [F#] on the [Bm] movie screen.
Very [Em] soon she [B] was a star, pretty [F#] house and [B] shiny cars,
swimming pool and a fence around, but she missed her old hometown.
But she missed her old hometown.
[E] All the world [B] was at her door, all except the boy next door,
who worked at [F#] the candy store.
[B] Dream on, dream [C#] on, teenage queen, [F#] saddest girl [B] we've ever seen.
Then one day the teenage [F#] star sold her house and all [B] her cars.
Gave up all [E] her [B] wealth and fame, left it all and caught a train.
Left it all and caught a train.
Oh, I have to tell you more, she came back to the boy next door,
who worked at the candy store.
Now this story has some more, you'll [F#] hear it all at the candy [G#] store. _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ Now this [A] story [E] has some [A] more, you'll [E] hear it all at the candy store.
Yes, we never understood the girl who went to Hollywood,
but came back to her old hometown, cause Hollywood had let her down.
Hollywood had let her [A] down.
Had the whole world at her [E] door, but she missed the boy next door,
who works [B] at the [E] candy store.
Hurry, [A] hurry, [E] _ [A] _
[E] [B] she's leaving.
[E] Thought she wanted wealth and fame, bright lights spelling out her name.
But the [A] glamour soon would [E] part and leave her with a lonely heart.
Leave her with a lonely [A] heart.
She was rich and he [E] was poor, but she loved the boy next door,
who works at the candy store.
Hurry, hurry, she's leaving.
_ [D#] _
[E] _ Meanwhile back in her hometown, the lonely boy was still around.
Long he [A] waited for [E] his dream, how he missed his teenage queen.
How he missed his teenage [A] queen.
If he'll [E] just wait a little more, she'll be back to the boy next door,
who works [B] at the [E] candy store.
Better [A] hurry, [E] teenage [A] queen.
[E] _ _
When she came [A] back to [E] our town, the lonely boy was still around.
Waited [A] long for her [E] return, through her love had never burned.
Through her love had never burned.
[A] Someone else who [E] loved him more, had won the lonely boy next door,
who works at the candy store.
Lonely, lonely, [A] teenage [E] queen.
Someone else has won her dream.
He waited [A] for a word from [E] you, waited long and waited true.
But love cannot [A] [E] forever wait.
He came back home, but came too late.
Came back home, but came too late.
[A] Now the lonely [E] boy next door isn't lonely anymore.
Found his love at the candy store.
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