My Home's In Alabama-Alabama

[ti:My Home's In Alabama] [ar:Alabama] [al:The Essential Alabama 3.0] [by:] [offset:0] [00:04.28]My Home's In Alabama - Alabama [00:11.90] [00:26.07]Drinkin' was forbidden in my Christian country home [00:30.87] [00:31.80]I learned to play the flattop on [00:34.55]'Em good old gospel songs [00:36.68] [00:37.49]Then I heard about the barrooms [00:40.12]Just across the Georgia line [00:42.37] [00:43.18]Where a boy could make a livin' [00:45.67]Playin' guitar late at night [00:48.10] [00:49.04]Had to learn about the ladies [00:51.22] [00:51.91]Too young to understand [00:54.22] [00:54.91]Why the young girls fall in love [00:57.16] [00:57.73]With the boys in the band [01:00.16] [01:00.85]When the boys turn to music [01:03.23] [01:03.79]The girls just turn away [01:05.98] [01:06.60]To some other guitar picker [01:09.43]In some other late night place [01:11.86] [01:12.62]Yeah held on to my music [01:14.87] [01:15.55]Let the ladies walk away [01:17.83] [01:18.33]Took my songs and dreams [01:20.02]To Nashville and then on to L A [01:23.96] [01:24.71]Up to New York city all across the USA [01:29.60] [01:30.54]I've lost so much [01:31.85]Of me but there's enough of me to say [01:35.60] [01:36.10]That my home's in Alabama [01:40.91] [01:42.15]No matter where I lay my head [01:47.33] [01:49.15]My home's in Alabama [01:53.52] [01:54.90]Southern born and southern bred [01:59.44] [02:14.07]What keeps me goin' I don't really know [02:18.85] [02:20.30]Can't be the money Lord knows I'm always broke [02:24.80] [02:25.55]Could it be the satisfaction of bein' understood [02:30.47] [02:31.47]When the people really love you [02:33.90]And let you know when it's good [02:36.59] [02:37.16]Oh I'll speak my southern English [02:39.41] [02:40.22]As natural as I please [02:42.34] [02:43.03]I'm in the heart of Dixie [02:45.59]Dixie's in the heart of me [02:47.90] [02:48.84]And someday when I make it [02:50.89] [02:51.52]When love finds a way [02:53.89]Somewhere high on lookout mountain [02:56.77]I'll just smile with pride and say [02:59.83]That my home's in Alabama [03:04.53] [03:05.66]No matter where I lay my head [03:10.72] [03:11.97]My home's in Alabama [03:16.72] [03:18.16]Southern born and southern bred [03:22.59] [03:24.28]Southern born and southern bred [03:28.83] [03:30.45]Southern born and southern bred