Movie Queen lyrics

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