The lyric is from John Prine's "Jesus: The Missing Years". The song is not about the missing years of Jesus, the son of God but a fictional adolescent and his journey through life. He leaves Bethlehem for Spain and France and finds his way to America. Amongst other activities, he becomes the first music act of three (three-way package) as the opening act for the headline act George Jones a country singer.
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