Intro
Gm7 C Gm7 C (repeat once)
[Verse]
C Cmaj7
Drinkin' was forbidden in my Christian country home
C7 F
I learned to play the flattop on them good ol' Gospel songs
A# G7
Then I heard about the barrooms just across the Georgia line
C
Where a boy could make a livin' playin' guitar late at night
C Cmaj7
Had to learn about the ladies; too young to understand
C7 F
why the young girls fall in love with the boys in the band
A# G7
When the boys turn to music, the girls just turn away
C
to some other guitar picker in some other late night place
C Cmaj7
Yeah, I held on to my music; I let the ladies walk away
C7 F
I took my songs and dreams to Nashville and then on to L.A.
A# G7
Up to New York City, all across the USA
C
I lost so much of me but there's enough of me to say (that my)
[Chorus]
F G C Gm7 C
home's -in Ala bama, no matter where I lay my head
F Em F C
My home's in Ala bama, Southern born and Southern bred
C Gm7 C Gm7 C
[Verse]
C Cmaj7
What keeps me goin'? I don't really know.
C7 F
can't be the money the Lord knows I'm always broke
A# G7
could it be the satisfaction of bein' understood
C
when the people really love ya and let you know when it's good
C Cmaj7
Well I'll speak my Southern English just as natural as I please
C7 F
I'm in the heart of Dixie, Dixie's in the heart of me
A# G7
and someday when I make it, when love finds a way
C
somewhere high on Lookout Mountain I'll just smile with pride and say that my
[Chorus]
F G C Gm7 C
home's -in Ala bama, no matter where I lay my head
F Em F C
My home's in Ala bama, Southern born and Southern bred