Jon English Hollywood Seven Lyrics

Hollywood Seven Lyrics

She came in one night from Omaha, worn out

She never could sleep on
trains, took the bus to Hollywood

Lookin' for a room in the pourin'
rain

With hair so blonde and eyes so brown

She thought she'd take
this town and turn it upside down



And me-ee,  I was livin' in a
hotel just off Sunset

She moved in across the hall

And she said
she'd be a movie star-ar-ar

And waited every mornin' for a ca-all

So I asked her in just to have a little drink but she hardly had the time

A call might come tomorrow, she got to learn her li-ines



On
Hollywood Seven, rooms to rent, till your name goes up in lights

Woh-oh,
Hollywood Seven, dream your dream - seven bucks a night



And then
the months went by without a job

The money that she saved was nearly
spent

So she started bringin' strangers home

Just tryin' to find a
way to pay the rent

And  she'd sit down and drink my coffee, got nothin'
much to say-ay

Just busy rehearsin' in her mind the scene she'd never
play-ay



On Hollywood Seven, rooms to rent, till your name goes up
in lights

Woh-oh, Hollywood Seven, dream your dreams for seven bucks a
night



I found her there one mornin'

She didn't co-ome for
coffee when I called

She'd gone and brought the wrong one home this
time

There were crazy lipstick marks all over the wall

Now she's
goin' back to Omaha but not the way she'd pla-anned

There'll be no crowd
to cheer her on, no welcome home, no ba-and



On Hollywood Seven,
rooms to rent, till your name goes up in lights

Hollywood Seven, dream
your dream for seven bucks a night



She came in one night from
Syracuse, tired from sleepin' o-on the plane

Took a cab to Hollywood,
dreamin' of the lights, that would s