Straight A’s In Love:Johnny Cash. #16 on BB Hot Country and #84 on BB Hot 100 on SUN Records in 1959. INTRO: #1. Well the readin’ and the writin’ and arithmetic never did get through to me. It ain’t because I’m square or thick cause I learned my ’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. CHORUS: Now the teacher would say to learn your Algebra but I’ bring home ’s and ’s. How could I make an A when there’s a swingin’ maid on the left and on the right and in the back and the front of me? BRIDGE: 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 learnin’ in the dark I’d have straight A’s in love. INTERLUDE: #2. Now in my senior year with graduation near I did my homework every night. And when my momma said I oughta go to bed I’d turn out all the lights. But my sweetie pie was waitin’ right outside she’d be a-cooin’ like a dove. Though I did my best I failed semester test but made straight A’s in love. CHORUS: Now the teacher would say to learn your Algebra but I’ bring home ’s and ’s. How could I make an A when there’s a swingin’ maid on the left and on the right and in the back and the front of me? BRIDGE: 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 learnin’ in the dark I’d have straight A’s in love. A fifties smash from Kraziekhat.