ALABAMA
By: The Louvin Bros.
Recorded May 25, 1955


3/4 TIME (WALTZ)

INTRO: PLAY INSTRUMENTALLY
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All mingled a-round the old place I was born


VERSE ONE
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Alabama love, your beautiful sunlight
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Your fields of cerisa, potatos and corn
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Alabama love, your crimson red clover 
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All mingled around the old place I was born


VERSE TWO
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Alabama love , your hills and your valleys
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Your creeks sing with laughter as onward they flow
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Alabama love, so sweet in the springtime
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Sweet ferns and wild flowers in winter with snow


VERSE THREE
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Alabama love, so sweet to my memory
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You shine like a light on the beautiful hill
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Alabama love, in days of my childhood
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I've labored and toiled at the old sorghum mill


TAGG INSTRUMENTALLY
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I've labored and toiled at the old sorghum mill


VERSE FOUR
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Alabama love, when red leaves are falling
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I've roamed through your pastures with fences of rail
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Alabama love, when possums are crawling and 
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And hound dogs are whining and wagging their tails


VERSE FIVE
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Alabama love, your beautiful high-ways
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Are carved through the mountain where loved ones do wait
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Alabama love, your goldenrod flowers
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And the welcome home sign hanging over the gate


VERSE SIX
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Alabama love, to me you are calling
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My footsteps are homin’ no longer to stray 
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Alabama love, you hold all I long for
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You hold all I love, so I'm coming today