My Home's In Alabama

Album: My Home's In Alabama (1980)
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  • Drinkin' was forbidden in my Christian country home
    I learned to play the flattop on them good ol' Gospel songs
    Then I heard about the barrooms just across the Georgia line
    Where a boy could make a livin' playin' guitar late at night

    Had to learn about the ladies, too young to understand
    Why the young girls fall in love with the boys in the band
    When the boys turn to music, the girls just turn away
    To some other guitar picker in some other late night place

    Yeah, held on to my music, I let the ladies walk away
    Took my songs and dreams to Nashville then I moved on to L.A.
    Up to New York City all across the USA
    I lost so much of me but there's enough of me to say that my

    Home's in Alabama, no matter where I lay my head
    My home's in Alabama, Southern born and Southern bred

    What keeps me goin' I don't really know
    Can't be the money Lord knows I'm always broke
    Could it be the satisfaction of bein' understood
    When the people really love ya and let you know when it's good

    Oh I'll speak my Southern English just as natural as I please
    I'm in the heart of Dixie, Dixie's in the heart of me
    And someday when I make it, when luck finds a way
    Somewhere high on Lookout Mountain I'll just smile with pride and say that my

    Home's in Alabama, no matter where I lay my head
    My home's in Alabama, Southern born and Southern bred
    Southern born and Southern bred
    Southern born and Southern bred

    And my home's in Alabama, no matter where I lay my head
    My home's in Alabama, Southern born and Southern bred
    Southern born and Southern bred
    Southern born and Southern bred Writer/s: RANDY OWEN, TEDDY GENTRY
    Publisher: CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Camille from Toronto, OhThis Alabama song captures the country rock sound of the 1980s and is still great to listen to. It has an Allman Brothers southern rock feel to it but definitely Alabama’s sound. Alabama is the best selling country band of all time with over 40 #1 hits. They are the most awarded country band, too, including being named Artist of the Decade by the Academy of Country Music, and have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Songfacts needs to add a whole lot more of their music to the Songfacts website.
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