Neighborhood Girl Lyrics - The Statler Brothers

It started about the time she was born 

Her rising above the raising of corn 

Her Midwestern dream of winning the world 

And she was always my neighborhood girl 

She made cheerleader and I made the team 

I carried her books while she carried her dream 

Of magazine covers and Hollywood world 

And she was always my neighborhood girl 

I went in the Navy when war came along 

And cried every time I heard a love song 

For as I was sailing half-way 'round the world 

I still loved my neighborhood girl 

I came home one Christmas on thirty days' leave 

The things that I heard I couldn't believe 

She still had dreams that were out of this world 

But she was now the neighborhood girl