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
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Honey when I brought you here you said that you would sing(?)
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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