Pride of Alabama
by Yonder Mountain String Band

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Verse 1:
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Dixie was the pride of Alabama
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I met her on a lonesome midnight train
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Rollin' slowly out of Union Station
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She was staring out the window at the rain


Verse 2:
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Well Dixie was from sunny Alabama
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Those old steel rails would roll to Birmingham
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Mobile, her final destination
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I looked down at the ticket in her hand


Chorus:
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Southbound train it ain't you I know that done her wrong
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Say again that you seen it coming all along
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All that she knew those sweet memories it's true
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Dixie darling caught her southbound train


Verse 3:
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Dixie asked if I'd been to Alabama
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Her voice was thick like some old southern night
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And maybe for the sake of conversation
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I said back in '88 or '89 


Verse 4:
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She said her daddy's fields were full of cotton
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By the river that she swam in as a child
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Lord she loved those sweet magnolia blossoms
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And that good ol' Honeysuckle growing wild


 Chorus 


Verse 5:
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Dixie told me how she got to Denver
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A southern gal who coudn't stand the cold
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She fell in love and left Mobile forsaken
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Mistaken for a dusty pot of gold


Verse 6:
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Dixie let the pieces fall together
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And painted up this picture in my mind
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Mobile, Alabama was a-callin' her back
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And the Pride of Alabama was on time


 Chorus