Top 25 Johnny Cash Songs: Ballad of a Teenage Queen (#24)

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You can do top ten lists, but Johnny Cash was special. His popularity transcended genres (he's in both the Rock and Country halls of fame) and time (he has fans who were kids when he died in 2003, as well as people like my 85-year-old dad who bought his albums when they first came out). That's why I'm doing a "top 25" favorite Cash songs. #24: Ballad of a Teenage Queen Rockabilly. Country. A story song. It's everything! It even has a happy ending!!! ("Now the story has some more, you can hear it all at the candy store.") This harkens back to a time when songs were "simpler" but still made their point. Clocking in at just over two minutes, Cash runs through the tale of a beautiful, humble girl who becomes a movie superstar, then decides that the fame isn't for her and goes back home to her high school sweetheart. He sang it in less time than it took me to type it! This is one of Cash's great, classic hits, one I grew up with (we had this album when I was a kid, and I think I still have it [although it's so old and worn it probably won't play]), and an all-time favorite. Ballad of a Teenage Queen Written by Cowboy Jack Clement From Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous, 1959 Dream on, dream on, teenage queen....