Chords for Alabama-My home's in Alabama 1980

[D] _ _ [B] Here's a song that's a time we kept for our album that we have out now.
[N] We'd like to thank all the people for making this what it [G#m] was after nine and a half years.
We'd like to thank y'all.
God bless y'all.
[A] We appreciate it.
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Drinking was forbidden in my Christian country home.
I learned to play the flat top [G] on them good old gospel songs.
[C] Then I heard about the bar room just [A] across the Georgia line.
Where a boy can make a living [D] playing the guitar late at night.
Had to learn about the ladies too young to understand.
Why [G] the young girls fall in [C] love [G] with the boys in the band.
[C] When the boys turn to music, [A] girls just turn away.
To some other guitar picker [D] in some other late night place.
Yeah, I held on to my music, let the ladies walk away.
Took my songs and dreams to [C] Nashville, [G] then I moved on to L.A.
[C] Up to New York City, all [A] across the U.S..A. I've lost so much of me, but [D] there's enough of me to say. That [G] my _ [A] [D] home's in Alabama. No matter [Am] where I [D] lay my head. _ [G] My _ home's in [F#m] Alabama. _ [G] Southern _ born and [D] southern bred. _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
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_ What keeps me going, I don't really know. _ Can't be the [C] money, [G] Lord knows I'm always broke. [C] Could it be the satisfaction [A] of being understood. When the people really love you, [D] let you know when it's good. Oh, I speak my southern English, as natural as I please. I'm in the heart of Dixie, [G] Dixie's in the heart of me. [C] Someday when I make it, [A] when luck finds the way. Somewhere high on Lookout [D] Mountain, I'll just smile with pride and say. That [G] my _ [A] [D] home's in Alabama. No matter where [Am] I [D] lay my head. _ [G] My _ home's in [F#m] Alabama. _ _ [G] _ Southern born and [D] southern bred. _ [A] Southern born and [D] southern bred. _ [Am] Southern born and [D] southern bred. _ _ [Am] _ [G] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [G] _
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Henny Chetty on bass guitar, [A] let's hear it for _ [G#] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
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[Am] _ [D] her. _ _ [Dm] _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [D] Let's hear it for Jeff Cook on lead guitar [Em] now. [Am] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
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Woo! _ [G] _ [D] _ _ _ That [G] my _ [A] [D] home's in Alabama. _ No [Am] matter _ where I lay [D] my head. _ _ _ [G] My [Bm] home's in [F#m] Alabama. _ _ [D] Southern [G] born and [D] southern bred. _ Southern [Am] born [Em] and [D] southern bred. _ [Am] Southern _ born [D] and southern bred. [Am] _ _ [G] _ [C] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
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