Johnny Cash - Straight A’s In Love lyrics

Well a reading and a writing and arithmetic
Never did get through to me
It ain't because I'm square or thick
Because I learned my ABC's
But when I graduated from the grammar school
And I moved one grade above
I began to be a snook at books
But I made straight A's in love

Now the teacher would say
To learn your algebrae
But I'd bring home C's and D's
How could I make an A
When there's a swinging maid
On the left and on the right and in
The back and the front of me
Oh my grades are low on my card I
Know but they oughta give me one above
If they'd give me a mark for learning in
The dark I'd have straight A's in love

Now in my senior year with graduation near
I did my homework every night
And when my mama said I oughta go to
Bed I'd turn out all the lights
But my sweetie pie was waiting right outside
She'd be a cooing like a dove
Though I did my best I failed semester test
But I made straight A's in love

Now the teacher would say
To learn your algebrae
But I'd bring home C's and D's
How could I make an A
When there's a swinging maid
On the left and on the right and in
The back and the front of me
Oh my grades are low on my card I
Know but they oughta give me one above
If they'd give me a mark for learning in
The dark I'd have straight A's in love