Hooray For Hollywood

Anita O'Day · Other Songs - Anita O'Day

Hooray for Hollywood

That screwy ballyhooey Hollywood

Where any office boy or young mechanic can be a panic

With just a good looking pan

And any barmaid can be a star maid

If she dances with or without a fan



Hooray for Hollywood,

Where you're terrific if you're even good

Where anyone at all from Shirley Temple to Aimee Semple

Is equally understood

Go out and try your luck, you might be Donald Duck

Hooray for Hollywood



Hooray for Hollywood

That phoney super-Coney Hollywood

They come from Chillicothes and Paducas with their bazookas

To get their names up in lights

All armed with photos from local rotos

With their hair in ribbon and legs in tights



Hooray for Hollywood

You may be homely in your neighbourhood

But if you think that you can be an actor, see Mr. Factor

He'll make a monkey look good

Within a half an hour you'll look like Tyrone Power

Hooray for Hollywood



Hooray for Hollywood