Chords for Alabama - The Louvin Brothers

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Alabama, _ [Bb] your beautiful [F] _ sunlight, [Bb] your fields [F] of sericea, _ potatoes [C] and corn.
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Alabama, _ [Bb] your crimson [F] red corn, [Bb] all mingled around the [C] old place I [F] was born.
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_ [F] _ _ Alabama, _ [Bb] your hills and [F] your valley, [Bb] your creeks sing [F] with laughter as onward [C] they flow.
[F] _ _ Alabama, _ [Bb] so sweet in [F] the springtime, [Bb] sweet ferns and [F] _
wildflowers [C] in winter with snow.
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Alabama, _ [Bb] so sweet to my memory, you shine like [F] a light on the beautiful [C] _ hill. _ _
_ _ _ [Bb] In days of [F] my childhood, [Bb] I've labored and called at [C] the old _ [F] _ Sagamill. _ _
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Alabama, _ [Bb] when red leaves [F] are falling, [Bb] I'll roam through [F] your pastures with fences [C] of rails.
Alabama, _ _ _ [Bb] when possums [F] are crawling, [Bb] and hound dogs [F] are whining [C] and wagging [F] their _ tails. _
_ _ _ Alabama, _ [Bb] your beautiful [F] _
highway, [Bb] I've hiked [F] through the mountains where loved [C] ones do [F] wait.
_ _ Alabama, [Bb] your golden [F] rye flowers [Bb] and the welcome [F] home sign [C] hanging over [F] the gate. _ _ _ _ _
Alabama, _ _ [Bb] to me you [F] are calling, [Bb] my footsteps [F] are holding, no longer [C] do stray.
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[F] Alabama, _ _ you [E] hold all I long for, you [Bb] hold all I [F] love, so [C] I'm coming _ [F] today. _
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