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>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