Jon English - 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-are-are 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