Tar Top-Alabama

[ti:Tar Top] [ar:Alabama] [al:The Essential Alabama] [by:] [offset:0] [00:14.10]It was July hot 'cross Georgia on my way to Myrtle Beach [00:20.78]I just got my diploma so I set out in search of me [00:28.29]The honeymoon was over and Alabama was far away [00:34.28]From being little more than just a southern state [00:40.97]I got a gig down at the Bowery [00:47.59]I played for tip and watered drinks [00:54.29]Just a novice in a business [01:00.29]That's seldom what it seems [01:07.61]And where are you goin' Tar Top [01:13.61]Where's J C And The Chosen Few [01:17.92]I saw the Flash without T Gentry [01:27.17]And B V left for Malibu [01:37.17]I was July hot and thirty some years down the line [01:43.60]When the Boys touched the nation unaware at the time [01:50.42]I got to go to Texas California New York too [01:57.23]A farm boy who is thankful to be standin' in his shoes [02:05.48]But in the Bowery hangs the mem'ries [02:10.43]Of dreams that still come true [02:15.30]Every time I see the spotlight [02:19.06]I'm one of the chosen few [02:24.56]And where are you going Tar Top [02:31.93]Where's J C and the Chosen Few [02:36.30]There's no Flash without T Gentry [02:45.49]And B V where are you [02:52.68]Where are you goin' Tar Top [02:58.18]Which direction will you take [03:04.56]What's this contrabanded clamor [03:11.12]About the music that you make [03:17.68]And where are you goin' Tar Top [03:23.74]Is it country enough [03:30.05]Is it contemporary glamour [03:36.99]No it's us just us [03:49.93]Uh huh