THE TOURIST   Writer Wynn Stewart and Curtis Leach   Copyright 1965      I was just a tourist out on the great white way   Where lights make night as bright as day and day as dark as night   I visited the city seen all the finer sights   Then I thought I'd do some slummin' for a little while one night   Well I stepped into the shadows of a second rate cafe   The burlesques were before me in their old familiar way   As I drew near my table the front girl whirled around   And I recognized my sweetheart from my own hometown   Yes she was just a hometown high school beauty queen   But everybody told her how she could be everything   When the contest finally ended and the judges called her name   She won a trip to Broadway where she would find the fame   I slowly turned around and stepped back into crowd   For I knew she mustn't seen me she always was too proud   And in that one lonely moment the truth my mind unveiled   The town she loved may failed her the town she thought she failed   So that night I wrote a letter on a homeward bound express   And it read congratulations to you on your success   But if you should ever decide to come back home again   Well you know I'll always be here waitin' just like I've always been   I was just a tourist out on the great white way   Where lights made night as bright as day and day as bright as night   When old friends ask about her I just smile at them and say   She's star of show on Broadway out on the great white way