Smokey Hollow

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Tex Williams

Actor, Singer, Songwriter. Born Sollie Paul Williams, in Ramsey, Illinois, he was among the most popular country entertainers of the 1940's. As a singer songwriter, he is best known for the hit "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! That Cigarette" which held the number one sales position on the Billboard charts for six weeks in 1947. His other songs included "The California Polka", "Suspicion", That's What I Like About the West", "Who? Me?", "Talking Boogie" and "Life Gits Tee-Jus, Don't It?". For feature films, he appeared in "Tex Williams and His Western Caravan" (1947), "Tex Williams Orchestra in Western Whoopee" (1948) and "Tex Williams Western Varieties" (1951).

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1965

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There's a sayin' in Smokey Hollow that no matter what path to follow,
It will always lead you back wherever you roam,
It's an easy kind of living but the ways are slow forgiving,
And the folks in Smokey Hollow look after their own,
It was there I wandered one day and my heart told me I must stay,
When I saw a girl with long black wavy hair,
She stood so tall and slender her lips looked warm and tender,
But she never let me know the pleasure there,
In the evening when the sun went down and all was still,
I could hear her as she came singing down the hill,
And I listened till I couldn't stand the taunting sound,
So I hid there in the trees and struck her down.

The years have passed in number I think it's ten this summer,
And I guess I've always known I couldn't win,
Cause I've run till I'm tired of runnin' and I've hid till I'm tired of hidin',
And I'm almost glad it's come to an end,
In the evening when the sun goes down and all is still,
I'll be hanging like the smoke there between the hills,
They're gonna make me pay for my sinful wrong,
For the folks in Smokey Hollow look after their own,
Yeah the folks in Smokey Hollow look after their own,
For the folks in Smokey Hollow look after their own.

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