Louvin Brothers - Alabama guitar chord

ALABAMA

By: The Louvin Bros.

Recorded May 25, 1955

3/4 TIME (WALTZ)

INTRO: PLAY INSTRUMENTALLY

F Bb F C F

All mingled a-round the old place I was born

VERSE ONE

F Bb F

Alabama love, your beautiful sunlight

Bb F C

Your fields of cerisa, potatos and corn

F Bb F

Alabama love, your crimson red clover

Bb F C F

All mingled around the old place I was born

VERSE TWO

F Bb F

Alabama love , your hills and your valleys

Bb F C

Your creeks sing with laughter as onward they flow

F Bb F

Alabama love, so sweet in the springtime

Bb F C F

Sweet ferns and wild flowers in winter with snow

VERSE THREE

F Bb F

Alabama love, so sweet to my memory

Bb F C

You shine like a light on the beautiful hill

F Bb F

Alabama love, in days of my childhood

Bb F C F

I've labored and toiled at the old sorghum mill

TAGG INSTRUMENTALLY

F Bb F C F

I've labored and toiled at the old sorghum mill

VERSE FOUR

F Bb C

Alabama love, when red leaves are falling

Bb F C

I've roamed through your pastures with fences of rail

F Bb F

Alabama love, when possums are crawling and

Bb C F

And hound dogs are whining and wagging their tails

VERSE FIVE

F Bb F

Alabama love, your beautiful high-ways

Bb F C F

Are carved through the mountain where loved ones do wait

F Bb F

Alabama love, your goldenrod flowers

Bb F C F

And the welcome home sign hanging over the gate

VERSE SIX

F Bb F

Alabama love, to me you are calling

Bb F C F

My footsteps are homin’ no longer to stray

F Bb F

Alabama love, you hold all I long for

Bb F C F

You hold all I love, so I'm coming today