Ernie Hernishen no less than the others. He was just eighteen when he wrote his first song, “The Girl Next Door Is to Die For,” which Garth Brooks came out of retirement to record; it spent eleven weeks as the number one country song in the USA, even crossing over to rise to number two on the pop charts. That was of course quickly followed by “Mama, Don’t Teach Me Your University Ways” and “Three Friends and One Dog Are All I Need,” which
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