Down On Music Row

Album: My Tennessee Mountain Home (1973)
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  • (Dolly Parton)

    Down on Music Row
    Down on music Row
    If you want to be a star
    That's where you've got to go

    I could feel a change a comin'
    I left my hometown a hummin'
    With my ol' guitar a strummin'
    Songs that I had wrote
    I was on my way to Nashville
    I just couldn't hardly wait
    'Till I could sing my songs
    To the folks on Music Row

    I got into Nashville early
    Sleepy, hungry, tired and dirty
    And on the steps of RCA
    I ate a stale, sweet roll
    In the fountain at the hall of fame
    I washed my face and read the names
    In the walkway of the stars
    Down on Music Row

    Down on Music Row
    Down on music Row
    If you want to be a star
    That's where you've got to go

    I waited there 'till eight o'clock
    When office doors became unlocked
    Then I started walkin'
    Down the streets of Music Row
    Just a walkin' up and down the street
    Tryin' to find out who to see
    To help me get on record
    And to hear the songs I'd wrote

    But I found it goin' rough
    Everyone was all tied up
    Either in a conference
    Or in the studio
    They said that I could leave a tape
    But they'd suggest I didn't wait
    'Cause everyone was awful busy
    Down on Music Row

    But I could feel that change a comin'
    And I just kept right on a hummin'
    With my ol' guitar still strummin'
    All them songs that I'd wrote
    And then Chet and Bob at RCA
    Well, they listened to my songs that day
    And they both told me that I was on my way
    Down on Music Row

    Down on Music Row
    Down on music Row
    If you want to be a star
    That's where you've got to go

    Writer/s: DOLLY PARTON
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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