LONG WAY TO HOLLYWOOD
Albums: Lonesome On'ry & Mean (97), Seven Bridges Road (72) and Solo/Live (91)
(Written by Steve Young)

Steve Young
Hank Williams (album : New South - 77)


Babe, I hate to leave you down here
In this one horse town
Where the trains run through your early dreams
Just to leave an old wailing sound,..

Oh but I'll come back
I will return
Honey, won't you wait for me?
I'm bound to travel the USA
Across the desert to the sea

(Cause) I've got another song about the south
Its white and its black
There ain't no banjo on my knee
But that songs on my back

Chorus:

Its a long long way to Hollywood
And a short change for fame
(Note: one could say "short chance for fame" instead of "short change")
All them slicks talk about downhome
But I know thats a southern game


*****


(Note: The following 2 verses can be left out)


When I told them I was leaving
You know my mama she cried
My grandma looked down the road
My old granddaddy he died

I love them all I love them all
I just hope it ain't too late
I hope I can help the ones that left here
I hope thats in my fate


*****


Repeat chorus


I've got another song for all the old people
Down in the Georgia night
I know their wings are heavy
They been on a lonesome flight

All the old depression people
I know they took a heavy load
All their children, my kinfolk's and cousins
Still walking on Tobacco Road

Well they still talk about Hank Williams
Clinging unto his fame
Hey, I'm of the same race, I'm from the same place
I got the same lonesome blood in my veins

Repeat chorus, .....



(Contributed by Sören Sjogren - October 2003)