Long Way To Hollywood

Oh babe, I hate to leave you down here in this one horse town

Where the train runs through your early dreams

Just to leave that ol' wailing sound

Oh, but I'm coming back, I will return

Oh honey now wait for me

I'm bound to travel U.S.A

'Cross the desert unto the sea

I've got another song about the South

You know it's white and it's black

There ain't no banjo on my knee

But the song's on my back

Yeah it's a long, long way to Hollywood

And a soft, soft change for fame

Oh them slicks are talkin' 'bout down home

But I know that's just a southern game

Oh, when I told 'em I was a-leaving

You know my old mama she cried

Old grandma she looked down that road

Lord, my old granddaddy, he died

Oh I love them all, you know I love them all

Honey I hope that it ain't so late

I hope I can help the ones that's left

Yeah, I hope it's in my fate

Yeah it's a long, long way to Hollywood

And a soft, soft change for fame

All them slicks are talkin' 'bout down home

But I know that's just a southern game

I've got another song for all them old people

Up and down in the Georgia night

Lord, I know their wings are heavy now

And they're on a most lonesome flight

All them old, old depression people

Babe, I know they took a heavy load

All the children, my kinfolks and cousins

Still walkin' down the back road

Well they still talk about Hank Williams

Lord, they clingin' on to his fame

I'm of the same race, I'm from the same place

It's some of the same lonesome blood in my veins

Oh it's a long, long way to Hollywood

And a soft, soft change for fame

All them slicks are talkin' 'bout down home

But I know that's just a southern game

Oh I know that's a southern game now

Yes I know that's a southern game now

I know that's a southern game