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Down On Music Row

This version of Down On Music Row was released by Dolly Parton in 1973.

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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
‘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

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

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Dolly Parton has released many songs over the years besides Down On Music Row. Dolly Parton released songs from 1967 to 2005 spanning across albums like Hello, I'm Dolly, Just Because I'm A Woman, My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy, In The Good Old Days, As Long As I Love, The Fairest Of Them All, A Real Live Dolly, Coat Of Many Colors, The Golden Streets Of Glory, Joshua, Touch Your Woman, My Favorite Songwriter: Porter Wagoner, Bubbling Over, My Tennessee Mountain Home, Love Is Like A Butterfly, Jolene, Dolly: The Seeker / We Used To, The Bargain Store, All I Can Do, New Harvest... First Gathering, Here You Come Again, Heartbreaker, Great Balls Of Fire, 9 To 5 And Odd Jobs, Dolly, Dolly, Dolly, Heartbreak Express, The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, Burlap & Satin, Rhinestone, The Great Pretender, Real Love, Rainbow, White Limozeen, Home For Christmas, Eagle When She Flies, Straight Talk, Slow Dancing With The Moon, Heartsongs: Live From Home, Something Special, Treasures, Hungry Again, The Grass Is Blue, Precious Memories, Little Sparrow, Halos & Horns, For God And Country, and Those Were The Days. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Dolly Parton.

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The lyrics to Down On Music Row are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Dolly Parton in 1973. Elements of the lyrics to Down On Music Row are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Dolly Parton and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Down On Music Row back when it was created.

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