The Louvin Brothers – Alabama chords

" A L A B A M A "

Written and recorded by the Louvin Bros.
From the LP "Tragic Songs of Life"
Acuff-Rose Music,
Recorded May 25, 1955

Capo 1

3/4 Waltz


E            A         EAlabama, your beautiful sunlight
     A         E       A           BYour fields of cerisa, potatos and corn
E             A           E         Alabama, your crimson red clover
     A      E              A           BAll mingled around the old place I was born


E             A              EAlabama, your hills and your valleys
     A                E            A           BYour creeks sing with laughter as onward they flow
E            A           EAlabama, so sweet in the springtime
      A              E          A           BSweet ferns and wild flowers in winter with snow


E           A           EAlabama, so sweet to my memory
    A            E            A         BYou shine like a light on the beautiful hill
E           A          EAlabama, in days of my childhood
     A           E             A           BI've labored and toiled at the old sorghum mill


E             A              EAlabama, when red leaves are falling
     A                   E             A         BI've roamed through your pastures with fences of rail
E             A           EAlabama, when possums are crawling and
    A              E           A             BAnd hound dogs are whining and wagging their tails


E             A         EAlabama, your beautiful highways
    A                  E              A             BAre carved through the mountain where loved ones do wait
E             A         EAlabama, your goldenrod flowers
        A                 E       A        BAnd the welcome home sign hanging over the gate


E           A          EAlabama, to me you are calling
   A             E         A         BMy footsteps are comin’ no longer to stray
E            A          EAlabama, you hold all I long for
    A        E              A      BYou hold all I love, so I'm coming today