| Well, did you hear the good news?
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| There’s gonna be some bad blues
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| Somebody said they’re playing all night long
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| So go and fill your brown bag and put on all your clean rags
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| Let’s go downtown and see what’s going on You take me down the Vine Street
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| Stop when you hear the back beat
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| And I’ll sneak past the bounccer at the door
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| Now I know that he ain’t looking
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| Not when the band is cooking
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| Because he’s watching the ladies dancing on the floor
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| Going down in Hollywood
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| You better hope that you don’t run out of gas
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| Down in Hollywood
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| He’ll drag you right out of your car and kick your ass
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| Down in Hollywood
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| They’re standing on a corner waiting for a sucker like you
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| Down in Hollywood
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| Now, if you want to stay healthy just keep a-moving right on through
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| Be careful, don’t look back, keep moving, keep moving
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| Well, the scotch has started flowing
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| And some girls she is showing everything she’s got
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| Folks, it’s a sight!
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| Some men will give a week’s pay if she would just dance down their way and say
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| «Baby, I’m gonna take you home with me tonight»
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| Outside the streets is shaking and I hear the windows breaking
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| Some poor fool’s gonna land in jail tonight
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| Well, all those hookers trying to pull your coat and the pimps reach out to cut
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| your throat
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| Ain’t no way out of here without a fight
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| (What's that fool saying ?)
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| Going down in Hollywood
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| You better hope that you don’t run out of gas
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| Down in Hollywood
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| He’ll drag you right out of your car and kick your ass
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| Down in Hollywood
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| They’re standing on a corner waiting for a sucker like you
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| Down in Hollywood
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| Now, if you want to stay healthy just keep a-moving right on through
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| Be careful, don’t look back, keep moving, keep moving
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| Voice of gay male: «Hi. |
| You know that you’re going to get arrested the way that
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| those pants fir around your thighs. |
| Oh, come back honey! |
| Don’t leave now.»
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| Voice of pimp: «Hey, bud. |
| Come here, let me talk to you for a second.
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| Give me that»
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| «Cops coming»
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| Voice of policeman (Ry): «869 Victor.» |
| «Jesus, this guy’s a mess»
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| Voice of other cop: «Well, he’s just drunk. |
| Come on, pick him up,
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| put him in the car and take him downtown»
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| Well, his mama told him not to go Little sister told him too
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| But the poor boy just didn’t listen
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| Like he should have, that’s too bad
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| He hitchhiked all the way from Burbank
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| Now, he’s gonna end up in drunk tank
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| Some old man say, «Yeah, well, that’s just the way it goes down in Hollywood»
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| Going down in Hollywood
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| You better hope that you don’t run out of gas
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| Down in Hollywood
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| He’ll drag you right out of your car and kick your ass
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| Down in Hollywood
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| They’re standing on a corner waiting for a sucker like you
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| Down in Hollywood
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| Now, if you want to stay healthy just keep a-moving right on through
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| For truth! |
| Man, I’m telling you
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| Well, they’ll do anything down in that low-down Hollywood
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| He’ll be in a world of trouble now
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| Lord, have mercy
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| Can I get a witness |