Alabama(Chords)

	        
3/4 TIME (WALTZ) 
 
INTRO: PLAY INSTRUMENTALLY 
F    Bb       F             C           F 
All mingled a-round the old place I was born 
 
 
VERSE ONE 
F                  Bb         F 
Alabama love, your beautiful sunlight 
     Bb         F                  C              
Your fields of cerisa, potatos and corn 
F                  Bb           F 
Alabama love, your crimson red clover  
     Bb       F             C          F 
All mingled around the old place I was born 
 
 
VERSE TWO 
F                   Bb              F 
Alabama love , your hills and your valleys 
     Bb                F                      C 
Your creeks sing with laughter as onward they flow 
F                Bb             F 
Alabama love, so sweet in the springtime 
      Bb         F              C           F 
Sweet ferns and wild flowers in winter with snow 
 
 
VERSE THREE 
F                Bb          F 
Alabama love, so sweet to my memory 
    Bb                        F         C 
You shine like a light on the beautiful hill 
F                Bb          F 
Alabama love, in days of my childhood 
      Bb          F            C           F 
I've labored and toiled at the old sorghum mill 
 
 
TAGG INSTRUMENTALLY 
F     Bb          F            C           F 
I've labored and toiled at the old sorghum mill 
 
 
VERSE FOUR 
F                  Bb             C 
Alabama love, when red leaves are falling 
     Bb                                 F        C 
I've roamed through your pastures with fences of rail 
F                   Bb          F 
Alabama love, when possums are crawling and  
    Bb              C                        F 
And hound dogs are whining and wagging their tails 
 
 
VERSE FIVE 
F                   Bb            F 
Alabama love, your beautiful high-ways 
    Bb                  F              C            F 
Are carved through the mountain where loved ones do wait 
F                   Bb        F 
Alabama love, your goldenrod flowers 
        Bb           F            C        F 
And the welcome home sign hanging over the gate 
 
 
VERSE SIX 
F                Bb          F 
Alabama love, to me you are calling 
    Bb            F        C         F 
My footsteps are homin? no longer to stray  
F                 Bb          F 
Alabama love, you hold all I long for 
    Bb          F           C       F 
You hold all I love, so I'm coming today
	        

Written by Eddie Hill/Charlie Louvin/Ira Louvin