This is a song about a girl from

The bayou down in Louisiana country

The story simply says



She left home at sixteen

Said she was gonna be a movie queen

Said her hometown was just too small

And she had roaches and rats wall to wall



So without a bag of beans she made a change of scenes

Hitched a ride up to New Orleans

With just the clothes on her back and a little brown sack

Said hello to the city where she would learn to act



Gonna be a movie queen gonna be on the big wide screen

Fancy clothes and diamond rings have all the better things



She took a part time job at the Burger King

Went to school at night oh she was doin' her things

Then she started hangin' out with the evening crowd

Gettin' high acclaim before she knew it she was all strung out

She still had that dream of bein' a movie queen

So she decided she'd have to leave New Orleans

Hollywood bound but with her feet on the ground

When she got to the city she took a look around



Said gonna be a movie queen gonna be on the big wide screen

Fancy clothes and diamond rings have all the better things



Oh but things didn't work out that way

They found her dead in her room today

But in my mind I can hear her say

I can still hear her say



Gonna be a movie queen gonna be on the big wide screen

Fancy clothes and diamond rings have all the better things