You find a way to look real cool

When you walk your way up downtown

You break a leg and look like a fool

Till what goes up spirals down

 

This city takes and never lends

But Hi Ho away you go

Left the farm, left your only friends

In O hi O hi O hi O

 

CHORUS: La La Hoopla La, La La Hoopla La

La La Hoopla La, Hollywood

La La Hoopla La, La La Hoopla La

La La Hoopla La, Hollywood

The world’s most misunderstood neighborhood

 

Omaha to Wichita

Baja to Panama

They even come from Arkansas

For Hollywood in the raw

 

This city takes and never lends

But Hi Ho away you go

Left the farm, left your only friends

In O hi O hi O hi O

 

CHORUS:

…. Hollywood

 

All things great and all things good in Hollywood

If you could, you know you should, make good in Hollywood

 

You find a way to look real cool

When you walk your way up downtown

You break a leg and look like a fool

Till what goes up spirals down

 

This city takes and never lends

But Hi Ho away you go

Left the farm, left your only friends

In O hi O hi O hi O

 

CHORUS

La La Hoopla La, La La Hoopla La

La La Hoopla La, Hollywood

La La Hoopla La, La La Hoopla La

La La Hoopla La, Hollywood

The world’s most misunderstood neighborhood

 

Omaha to Wichita

Baja to Panama

They even come from Arkansas

For Hollywood in the raw

 

This city takes and never lends

But Hi Ho away you go

Left the farm, left your only friends

In O hi O hi O hi O

 

CHORUS

 

All things great and all things good in Hollywood

If you could, you know you should, make good in Hollywood

 

By Mary James & Jean James