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From:
[email protected]
Subject: Re: Mae Jean Goes To Hollywood Chords/Words The Byrds
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 14:46:10 GMT
In alt.music.byrds,
[email protected] wrote:
>The Byrds Mae Jean Goes To Hollywood written by Jackson Browne
>
>Honey when I brought you here you said that you would sing(?)
>
>You said that you would win(?) your way to fortune and fame
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>Now I ve given everything to keep you warm and clean
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>I didn t bat an eye when you changed your name
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>I m getting tired of hearing people call you someone else
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>I m getting tired of seeing you go to work in the morning and eating
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>supper by myself
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>Now this Hollywood producer has offered you the world
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>He lets you drive his sporty new Camero
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>Wonder just how many girls he s told that story to
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>How many dreams have gone away in sorrow
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>I m getting tires of biting my nails and pumping gasoline
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>I m getting tired of waiting for you to figure out why this city is
>unclean
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>Mae Jean run back home with me and I ll go back to working on your
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>daddy s farm
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>Mae Jean run back home with me
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>This wicked cities bound to do us harm
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>Now all this time I helped you with your promising career
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>I never said one word about your singing
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>I just want to let you know that you ll still be my star
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>If you say goodbye to Hollywood
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>And do your singing in the shower
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>Mae Jean run back home with me back to where the air is clean + free
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>May Jean run back home with me
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>If this city doesn t get us first it s gonna sink into the sea
>From The Byrds Box Set Columbia/Legacy Records 1990
>out-take from the Ballad Of Easy Rider
>recorded 6/23/69