Long Way To Hollywood

Hey babe, I hate to leave you down here in this one-horse town
Where the train run through your early
Dreams, just to leave an old wailing sound
Yeah but I'm coming back, I will return
Hey honey won't you wait for me
You know I'm bound to travel the USA 'cross the desert to the sea
Yeah and I got another song about the South, it's white and it's black
And there ain't no banjo on my knee but that song is on my back

Yeah it's a long, long way to Hollywood, it's a short change for fame
All them slicks talk about down home but I know that's a southern game
You know when I told 'em I'm leaving, Lord my mama she cried
Oh grandma look down that road, Lord my old grandfather he died
Yeah I love them all, you know I love
Them all, I hope that it ain't too late
I hope I can help the ones that's left here, I hope that's in my fate
Yeah it's a long, long way to Hollywood, it's a short change for fame
All them slicks talk about down home but I know that's a southern game

You know I got another song for all them
Old people down in the Georgia night
I know their wings are heavy, they've been on a lonesome flight
Well all them old depression people, I know they took a heavy load
All their children, my kinfolks and
Cousins still walking on Tobacco Road
Well they still tell me 'bout Hank Williams
They're clinging on to his fame
You know I'm of the same race, hey I'm from the same
Place, I got the same lonesome blood in my veins

Yeah it's a long, long way to Hollywood
And it's a short change for fame
All them slicks talk about down home but I know that's a southern game
Well I know that's a southern game
I know that's a southern game