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