Long Way To Hollywood
Composer(s): Steve Young
Performer(s): Steve Young; Hank Williams



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
It's white and it's black
There ain't no banjo on my knee
But that song's on my back

It's a long long way to Hollywood
And a short change for fame
All them slicks talk about downhome
But I know that's a southern game

It's a long long way to Hollywood
And a short change for fame
All them slicks talk about downhome
But I know that's a southern game

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

It's a long long way to Hollywood
And a short change for fame
All them slicks talk about downhome
But I know that's a southern game ...