Alabama Lyrics

Here are the Alabama lyrics I have so far. TIP: To quickly find a song's lyrics press CTRL + F then type part of the song title and click "Find Next" until you get to your song. :)

FYI - Most of these songs are part of my personal collection that I downloaded HERE (opens in a new window).

Scroll down to the Alabama lyrics you're looking for, which are sorted in this order:

There's No Way
Song of the South
High Cotton
Roll On
Take Me Down
Mountain Music
Close Enough To Perfect
If You're Gonna Play In Texas (You Gotta Have A Fiddle In The Band)
I'm in a Hurry
Angels Among Us
My Home's In Alabama
Cheap Seats
Dancin', Shaggin' on the Boulevard
When It All Goes South
Born Country
God Must Have Spent A Little More Time On You
Love in the First Degree
Sad lookin' Moon

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[ Alabama lyrics ]

There's No Way

As I lay by your side
And hold you tonight
I want you to understand

This love that that I feel
Is so right and so real
I realize how lucky I am

And do you ever wonder if my love is true
There is something that I want to make clear with you

Chorus:
There's no way
I could make it without you
There's no way
That I'd even try
If I had to survive
Without you in my life
I know I wouldn't last a day
Oh Baby, there's no way

It means so much to me
Whenever I see
That 'wanting me' look in your eyes

I don't know how
I could do without
Holding you close every night

I've waited so long just to have you to hold
Now that I've got you, I'll never let go

Chorus

I never knew what to do, what I was missin'
Now you say forever, I find my heart is listenin'
Yes, I'm listenin'

Chorus
























[ Alabama lyrics ]
Song of the South

Chorus:
Song, song of the south
Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth
Gone, gone with the wind
There ain't nobody looking back again

Cotton on the roadside, cotton in the ditch
We all picked the cotton but we never got rich
Daddy was a veteran, a southern democrat
They oughta get a rich man to vote like that

Sing it...

Chorus

Well somebody told us Wall Street fell
But we were so poor that we couldn't tell
Cotton was short and the weeds were tall
But Mr. Roosevelt's a gonna save us all

Well momma got sick and daddy got down
The county got the farm and they moved to town
Pappa got a job with the TBA
He bought a washing machine and then a Chevrolet

Sing it...

Chorus

Play it...

Sing it...

Chorus

Song, song of the south...

Gone, gone with the wind...

Song, song of the south.
Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth.
Song, song of the south.
Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth.

Sing it...

Chorus 2X
























[ Alabama lyrics ]
High Cotton

We didn't know the times were lean
Round our house the grass was green
It didn't seem like things were all that bad

I bet we walked a thousand miles
Chopin' cotton and pushin' plows
And learnin' how to give it all we had

As life went on and years went by
I saw the light in daddy's eyes
And felt the love in mama's hands

They kept us warm and kept us fed
Taught us how to look ahead
Now lookin' back I understand.

Chorus:
We were walkin' in high cotton
Old times there are not forgotten
Those fertile fields are never far away
We were walkin' in high cotton
Old times there are not forgotten
Leavin' home was the hardest thing we ever faced.

When Sunday mornings rolled around
We dressed up in hand-me downs
Just in time together with the church
Sometimes I think how long it's been
And how it impressed me then
It was the only day my daddy wouldn't work.

Chorus x3

We were walkin' in high cotton

























[ Alabama lyrics ]
Roll On

Chorus:
Roll on highway, roll on along
Roll on daddy till you get back home
Roll on family, roll on crew
Roll on momma like I asked you to do
And roll on eighteen-wheeler roll on (roll on)

Well it's Monday morning, he's kissin' momma goodbye
He's up and gone with the sun
Daddy drives an eighteen-wheeler
And he's off on a midwest run

And three sad faces gather round momma
They ask her when daddy's comin' home
Daddy drives an eighteen-wheeler
And they sure miss him when he's gone (yeah they do)

Ah, but he calls them everynight and he tells them
That he loves them
He taught them this song to sing

Chorus

Well it's Wednesday evening, momma's waitin by the phone
It rings but it's not his voice
Seems the highway patrol has found a jacknifed rig
In a snow bank in Illinois

But the driver was missin' and the search had been abandoned
For the weather had everything strong
And they had checked all the houses and the local motels
When they had some more news they'd call

And she told them when they found him to tell him
That she loved him
And she hung up the phone singin'

Chorus

Momma and the children will be waiting up all night long
Thinkin' nothing but the words just comin'
With the ringin' of the telephone

Oh, but the man upstairs was listening
When momma asked him to bring daddy home
And when the call came in it was daddy on the other end
Askin' her if she had been singin' the song, singin'

Chorus

eighteen-wheeler
eighteen-wheeler
eighteen-wheeler
eighteen-wheeler

Roll on






















[ Alabama lyrics ]
Take Me Down

Fly away with me tonight
Take me on a one-way flight in your lovin' arms
And ev'rything's gonna be alright

You're the one who took my hand
When no one else could understand
You're the one who moves me
Like nobody else can

Chorus:
Take me down where I wanna be
Turn around, this man who lives inside of me
Take me down and love me all night long
Hold me close and make me strong
Take me down, take me down tonight

In your eyes I see the light
It's your emotions glowing bright
So keep the fires burning
And let it warm me through the night

You can be a part of me
'Cause you're what love was meant to be
You and me baby we'll set this flame inside us free

You don't have to stay forever
Let's just put our hearts together
And share another night in ecstasy

We know that it's feelin' better
Ev'ry time we come together
Maybe love was meant for you and me

Chorus

Take me down tonight

Take me down tonight

Are you gonna take me
Shake me
Take me down tonight




[ Alabama lyrics ]
Mountain Music

Chorus:
Oh, play me some mountain music
Like grandma and grandpa used to play
Then I'll float on down the river
To a Cajun hideaway

Drift away like Tom Sawyer
Ride a raft with ol' Huck Finn
Take a nap like Rip Van Winkle
Days dreamin' again

Repeat Chorus

Swim across the river
Just to prove that I'm a man
Spend the day bein' lazy
Just bein' nature's friend

Climb a long tall hick'ry
Bend it over "skinnin' cats"
Playin' baseball with chert rocks
Usin' sawmill slats for bats

Bridge:
Play some back-home come-on music
That comes from the heart
Play something with lots of feelin'
'Cause that's where music has to start

Repeat Chorus

Tag:
Oh play me mountain music
Oh play me mountain music
Oh play me mountain music
Oh play-ya-ya






















[ Alabama lyrics ]
Close Enough To Perfect

Sometimes her morning coffee's way too strong
And sometimes what she says she says all wrong
Right or wrong she's there beside me like only a friend would be
And that's close enough to perfect for me

Now she's been known to wear her pants too tight
And drinking puts her out just like a light
Heaven knows she's not an angel but she'd really like to be
And that's close enough to perfect for me

Chorus:
She kisses me each morning
And smiles her sleepy smile
And she don't have to say it
I can see it in her eyes
Don't you worry about my woman
Or what you think she ought to be
She's close enough to perfect for me

Well sometimes she gets down and starts to cry
But then again a lady has a right
She's everything I ever wanted she's all I'll ever need
She's close enough to perfect for me

Chorus

Oh, she's close enough to perfect for me
























[ Alabama lyrics ]
If You're Gonna Play In Texas (You Gotta Have A Fiddle In The Band)

Chorus:
If you're gonna play in Texas,
You gotta have a fiddle in the band.
That lead guitar is hot, but not for "Lousiana Man".
So rosin up that bow for "Faded Love" and let's all dance.
If you're gonna play in Texas,
You gotta have a fiddle in the band.

I remember down in Houston
We were puttin' on a show
When a cowboy in the back stood up and yelled, "Cotton-Eyed Joe"
He said, "We love what you're doin' boys don't get us wrong
There's just somethin' missin' in your song"

Chorus

So we dusted off our boots and put our cowboy hats on straight
Them Texans raised the roof when Jeff opened up his case
You say y'all wanna two-step you say ya wanna doe-si-doe
Well, here's a fiddlin' song before we go

Chorus (repeat and fade)
























[ Alabama lyrics ]
I'm in a Hurry

Chorus:
I'm in a hurry to get things done
(Oh,) I rush and rush until life's no fun
All I really gotta do is live and die
But, I'm in a hurry and don't know why

Don't know why
I have to drive so fast
My car has nothing to prove
It's not new, but it'll zero to sixty in 5.2, oh

Chorus

Can't be late
I leave in plenty of time
Shakin' hands with the clock
I can't stop
I'm on a roll and I'm ready to rock oh,

Chorus

I hear a voice
It says I'm running behind
I better pick up my pace
It's a race and there ain't no room for someone in second place

Chorus 4X
























[ Alabama lyrics ]
Angels Among Us

I was walking home from school on a cold winter day
Took a shortcut through the woods, and I lost my way
It was getting late, and I was scared and alone
But then a kind old man took my hand and led me home
Mama couldn't see him, oh but he was standing there
And I knew in my heart, he was the answer to my prayers

Chorus:
Oh I believe there are angels among us
Sent down to us from somewhere up above
They come to you and me in our darkest hours
To show us how to live, to teach us how to give
To guide us with the light of love

When life held troubled times, and had me down on my knees
There's always been someone to come along and comfort me
A kind word from a stranger, to lend a helping hand
A phone call from a friend, just to say I understand
And ain't it kind of funny at the dark end of the road
That someone lights the way with just a single ray of hope

Chorus

They wear so many faces, show up in the strangest places
To grace us with their mercy, in our time of need

Chorus

To guide us with a light of love




[ Alabama lyrics ]
My Home's In Alabama

Drinkin' was forbidden in my Christian country home
I learned to play the flattop on them good ol' Gospel songs
Then I heard about the barrooms just across the Georgia line
Where a boy could make a livin' playin' guitar late at night

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)

Chorus:
..home's in Alabama, no matter where I lay my head
My home's in Alabama, Southern born and Southern 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

Chorus










[ Alabama lyrics ]
Cheap Seats

This town ain't big, this town ain't small
It's a little of both they say
Our ball club may be minor league but at least it's triple A

We sit below the Marlboro man, above the right field wall
We do the wave all by ourself
Hang ump, a blind man could've made that call

Chorus:
We like beer flat as can be
We like our dogs with mustard and relish
We got a great pitcher what's his name
Well we can't even spell it
We don't worry about the penant much
We just like to see the boys hit it deep
There's nothing like the view from the cheap seats

The game was close, we'll call it a win
Go off to toast the boys again
That local band is back in town
They got a kinda minor league sound

They're not that bad, they're not that good
But all in all it's understood
We wanna dance, they wanna play
We wouldn't have it any other way

Chorus

Cheap seats

Now the majors called up oh what's his name
And one more buildin' rises tall
And suddenly we're all grown up
And this old town's not quite so small
But I'll always miss the middle size town
In the middle of the middle-west
With no name pitchers and local bands,
And mustard and relish and all the rest.

Chorus

Cheap seats












[ Alabama lyrics ]
Dancin', Shaggin' on the Boulevard

Well the Magic Attic's where the music rolls
And the Army-Navy's got ol' Jackie Soul
Down on Peaches Corner there are Good Ol' Boys
And Mother Fletchers makin' lots of noise
They're dancin', shaggin' on the boulevard
Dancin', shaggin' on the boulevard

Well the Tams are playin' at the Port-O-Call
And the Drifters underneath the Boardwalk
At the Sapnish Galleon and Ol' Fat Jacks
Jukebox playin' and the place is packed
You bet they're dancin', shaggin' on the boulevard
You know they're dancin', shaggin' on the boulevard

Got the top down and the traffic's slow
Sun Fun Week and, we all go
Where the girls are sunnin' and lookin' good
Well I never met 'em but I wish I could
And we'd go dancin', shaggin' on the boulevard
We'd go dancin', shaggin' on the boulevard

Well the Embers singin' up on Ocean Drive
And the Castaways are gettin' loud tonight
At the Electric Circus they all getin' down
And the Carousel's spinnin' round and 'round
See them dancin', shaggin' on the boulevard
I see 'em dancin', shaggin' on the boulevard

Well I'm hangin out down at Sloppy Joes
They may doze but they never close
And the Bama Boys at the Bowery
They can't dance but they play for free
But they like dancin', shaggin' on the boulevard
They know dancin', shaggin' on the boulevard
They wrote dancin', shaggin' on the boulevard
Dancin', shaggin' on the boulevard
Dancin', shaggin' on the boulevard
Shaggin' on the boulevard
Dancin', shaggin' on the boulevard
Dancin', shaggin' on the boulevard

 

[ Alabama lyrics ]
"When It All Goes South"

-It’ll creep up on you like a kudzu vine
Even miles above the Mason-Dixon line
‘Til one day you’re cravin' hominy grits
You're scannin' the jukebox for George Jones hits
Drinkin’ Jack Black
Tryin’ to kick back
'Til the condo’s looking like a shotgun shack
You’ll be one of us no matter where you’re at

When it all goes south
(You’ll be drivin’ around on a John Deere tractor)
When it all goes south
(Wearin' baseball caps but they won’t be backwards)
It really don’t matter what state you’re in
One day the south’s gonna rise again

There’s a Wall Street wonderboy
Sittin’ up north
Throwing darts like a monkey at a stock report
He's got two homes, car loans, in debt
And his third divorce ain’t even final yet
Traded his MBA for a SUV
On a backwoods road down in Tennessee
Cause man Manhattan ain’t the place to be

When it all goes south
(With the live oak trees and the sweet magnolias)
When it all goes south
(Eatin’ moon pies , drinkin' RC colas)
No it really don’t matter what state you’re in
Someday the south’s gonna rise again

I'm feelin' kinda southern right now

Vicksburg, Birmingham, Natchez and Savannah, Panama City
Y’all it sure look pretty in the sunshine
Getting’ dixiefried
Get yourself some rebel pride

When it all goes south
(Where the fog’s as thick as Mississippi mud)
When it all goes south
(You’ll be singin' the blues ‘cause it’s in your blood)
It really don’t matter what state you’re in
One day the south’s gonna gonna rise again
When it all goes south
(Where the fog’s as thick as Mississippi mud)
When it all goes south
(You’ll be singin' the blues ‘cause it’s in your blood)
Uh huh
(Hoo hoo)
Uh huh
(Uh huh)
Yeah
(hoo hoo hoo hoo)
(When it all goes south)





 

[ Alabama lyrics ]
"Born Country"

(John Schweers/Byron Hill)

-Clear creeks and cool mountain mornin's.
Honest work out in the fields.
Cornbread in my momma's kitchen.
Daddy saying grace before the meal.
Family ties run deep in this land.
And I'm never very far from what I am.

Chorus
I was born country and that's what I'll always be.
Like the rivers and the woodlands wild and free.
I got a hundred years of down home running through my blood.
I was born country and this country's what I love.

Moonlight and you hear beside me.
Crickets serenadin' in the yard.
What more could two people ask for.
Laying here in love beneath the stars.
Now this is where I wanna raise my kids.
Just the way my mom and daddy did.

Chorus 2X
I was born country


 

[ Alabama lyrics ]
"God Must Have Spent A Little More Time On You"

-Can this be true? Tell me, can this be real?
How can I put into words what I feel?
My life was complete, I thought I was whole
Why do I feel like I'm losing control?
Never knew that love could feel like this,
and you changed my world with just one kiss.
How can it be that right here with me there's an angel?
It's a miracle

Your love is like a river peaceful and deep
Your soul is like a secret That I could never keep
When I look into your eyes I know that it's true
God must of spent A little more time On you

In all of creation, all things great and small
You are the one that surpasses them all
More precious than any diamond or pearl
They broke the mold when you came in this world
And I'm trying hard to figure out just how I ever did without
The warmth of your smile, the heart of a child
That's deep inside, leaves me purified


 

[ Alabama lyrics ]
"Love in the First Degree"

Words and Music by Jim Hurt and Tim DuBois

-I once thopught of love as a prison a place I didn't want to be.
So long ago I made a decision to be footloose and fancy free.
But you cam I was so tempted to gamble on love just one time.
I never thought I would get caught.
It seemed liek the perfect crime.

Chorus:
Baby, you left me defneseless.
I've only got one plea.
Lock me away inside of your love and throw away the key.
I'm guilty of love in the first degree.

I thought it would be so simple, like a thousand times before.
I'd take what I wanted and just walk away, but I never made it to the door.
Now babe, I'm not beggin' for mercy.
Go ahead and throw the book at me.
If lovin' you's a crime, I know that I'm as guilty as a man can be.

Chorus

Oh yeah. Oh yeah.

Chorus

Oh yeah. Love in the first degree.
Love in the first degree.
Love in the first degree.


 

[ Alabama lyrics ]
"Sad lookin' Moon"

(Randy Owen/Teddy Gentry/Greg Fowler)

-I thought that you could fly, I thought that you had wings
I guess that I believed you'd never say goodbye
But my world stopped turnin' 'round, the stars turned upside down
It knocked me to the ground on my knees

Chorus:
Now there's a sad lookin' moon shinin' down on me
There's a sad lookin' sky as far as I can see
I always believed and I thought the stars could see
But there's a sad lookin' moon shinin' down on me

I shared with you my dreams, I gave you everything
I opened up my heart and I gave you my ring
Well I spent days and nights just thinkin' about the time
When you would be mine all my life

Chorus

There's a sad lookin' moon
A sad lookin' moon
There's a sad lookin' moon
Shinin' down on me