Down on Music Row

(Dolly Parton)



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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

'Til 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.



Chorus:

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 'til 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 streets tryin' to find out who to seek

To help me get on record and to hear the songs I'd wrote.



But I found the 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.



Chorus:

Down on music row

Down on music row

If you want to be a star

That's where you've got to go.



Chorus:

Down on music row

Down on music row

If you want to be a star

That's where you've got to go...