Old Hollywood Lyrics

Cold war

Plessy Ferguson or

The bus boycott at Montgomery

The fight for Civil Rights begins

And is prolonged with missiles for company

Everyone wants to be a patriot

Americans riot

So they use tv to elude

I hope everyday

Is used to age away

This country from that bitter decade

I don't miss the politics

Acts of hate or the violence

But I wish Hollywood could have stayed

I wanna watch the Milton and Berle show

Blast the King of Rock

Thunderbird top down go

I wanna have the glamor of miss Monroe

Cry for James Dean

Messy curls into a silk pillow

I miss old Hollywood

I miss old Hollywood

I miss old Hollywood

The American dream

Women tied in aprons and seams

It's the modern day corset

No wife dare whisper

To her mr that "your prejudice i'll not soon forget"

They'd rather spend their time

Behind their picket white pride

Saying "if a change is gonna come you better prove it"

Well i'm no Sam Cooke

But in my book of retrospect the past seems to parallel

A long time coming of politics

Acts of hate and violence

But of course Hollywood didn't stay

I wanna watch the Milton and Berle show

Blast the King of Rock

Thunderbird top down go

I wanna have the glamor of miss Monroe

Cry for James Dean

Messy curls into a silk pillow

I miss old Hollywood

I miss old Hollywood

I miss old Hollywood

I wanna hear the first lady of song

When I turn the radio on

In my Bel Air from Chevrolet

Chuck Berry

Dean Martin

Jerry Lee

Buddy Holly

And the show by Dorris Day

Television royalty

Audrey Hepburn

Natalie Wood

And the infamous Grace Kelly

I'd scream little Richard

Ray Charles

And dance under the Comets and Billy Haley

I wanna watch the Milton and Berle show

Blast the King of Rock

Thunderbird top down go

I wanna have the glamor of miss Monroe

Cry for James Dean

Messy curls into a silk pillow

I miss old Hollywood

I miss old Hollywood

I miss old Hollywood