Bally-hoo Days Lyrics - Eddy Arnold

BALLY-HOO DAYS 

Writers Larry Henley, Steve Pippin, Rafe VanHoy, Johnny Slate, Larry Keith 

Sitting at the stage door of the Palace 

Looking down the alley two ways 

One way takes my mind back home to Alice 

The other to my ballyhoo days 

There was a time my name had swept the nation 

But now my job is sweeping cafes 

I wonder how much living I have wasted 

Clinging to my ballyhoo days 

Ballyhoo days 

Ballyhoo days 

God almighty when I go 

Please let me go dancing ... 

Dancing 

I've seen life from both sides of the curtain 

And the only life for me is the stage 

But nowadays my work is more uncertain 

And filled with dreams of ballyhoo days 

Ballyhoo days 

Ballyhoo days 

God almighty when I go 

Please let me go dancing ... 

Dancing ... 

Dancing ... 

In a ballyhoo way 

Like my ballyhoo days