Alabama - Song Of The South

By axehappy - axehappy at countrytabs.com

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INTRO


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Song, song of the South,

Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth.

Gone, gone with the wind,
                                 A
There ain't nobody lookin' back again.


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Cotton on the roadside, cotton in the ditch,
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We all picked the cotton but we never got rich.
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Daddy was a veteran, a Southern Democrat,
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They oughta get a rich man to vote like that.


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Singin' song, song of the South,
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Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth.
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Gone, gone with the wind,
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There ain't nobody lookin' back again.


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Well somebody told us Wall Street fell,
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But we were so poor that we couldn't tell.
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Cotton was short and the weeds were tall,
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But Mr Roosevelt a gonna save us all.


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Well Momma got sick and Daddy got down,
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The County got the farm and they moved to town.
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Poppa got a job with the TBA,
            D                        
He bought a washing machine and then a Chevrolet.


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Sing it, song, song of the South,

Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth.

Gone, gone with the wind,
                                 D   Dadd9
There ain't nobody lookin' back again.


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INSTRUMENTAL


        A     E
Singin' song, song of the South,
D                              
Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth.
A     E
Gone, gone with the wind,
      D
There ain't nobody lookin' back again....