My Homes In Alabama

"My Home's in Alabama"

by Randy Owen and Teddy Gentry

Key of D

4/4 time

Here's the pattern I use to play the acoustic music in the background (very

close to yours)(unfortunately, I can't play any lead parts on it right now):

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I just use that same type of pattern for all of the chords, each note picked

being an 8th note.

Am7 D Am7 D (repeat once)

Drinkin' was forbidden in my [Dmaj7]Christian country home

I [D7]learned to play the flattop on them [G]good ol' Gospel songs

Then I [C]heard about the barrooms just a[A7]cross the Georgia line

Where a [A7]boy could make a livin' playin' [D]guitar late at night

(same chords for other verses)

Had to learn about the ladies; too young to understand

why the young girls fall in love with the boys in the band

When the boys turn to music, the girls just turn away

to some other guitar picker in some other late night place

Yeah, I held on to my music; I let the ladies walk away

took my songs and dreams to Nashville and then on to L.A.

Up to New York City, all across the USA

I lost so much of me but there's enough of me to say (that my)

.[G]-.home's -[A]in Ala[D]bama, no matter [Am7]where I lay my [D]head

My [G]home's in Ala[F#m]bama, Southern [G]born and Southern [D]bred

What keeps me goin'? I don't really know.

can't be the money the Lord knows I'm always broke

could it be the satisfaction of bein' understood

when the people really love ya and let you know when it's good

Well I'll speak my Southern English just as natural as I please

I'm in the heart of Dixie, Dixie's in the heart of me

and someday when I make it, when love finds a way

somewhere high on Lookout Mountain I'll just smile with pride and say that my

repeat chorus

Enjoy!

Doug Smith

<dksmith@king2.king.bristol.tn.us>