...BIRMINGHAM... by Randy Newman
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*from 'Good Old Boys' (1974)*


*CAPO 4th FRET*

(Original Key: E)


Intro:

C  G7, F  C, C  G, C

Verse 1:

      C    G9      C7
Got a wife,  got a family,
F        F/E            D7
 Earn my livin' with my hand.
      C            Am
I'm a roller, in a steel mill,
D7       G7           C    G7
 In down-town Birming-ham.

Verse 2:

C   G9           C7
 My daddy, was a barber,
F      F/E     D7
 And a most un-sightly man.
       C                Am
He was born in In Tusca-loosa,
       D7         G7              C    G7
But he died right here in Birming-ham.

Chorus 1:

C            F
 Birmingham, Birmingham,
C             Am      D7  G7
 The greatest city in Ala-bam'.
C        C7                 F  F/E  D7
 You can travel 'cross this en-tire land,
                C             G       C
But there ain't no place like Birming-ham.

Interlude:

C  F  C, C  Am, D7  G7
C  F  C, C  G, C

Bridge 1:

C
 Wife's named Mary, but she's called Marie,
F                                    C
 We live in a three room house with a pepper tree.
  F        F/E        D7
I work all day in the factory;
          G              G7
That's al-right with me.

Verse 4:

C                G9                 C7
 Got a big black dog, whose name is Dan,
F            F/E          D7
 Lives in my backyard, in Birmingham.
C                 E7     Am
 He's the meanest dog in Alabam';
D7            G7
 Get 'em Dan!

Chorus 2:

C            F
 Birmingham, Birmingham,
C             Am      D7  G7
 The greatest city in Ala-bam'.
C        C7                 F  F/E  D7
 You can travel 'cross this en-tire land,
                C             G       C
But there ain't no place like Birming-ham.

Outro:

C  F  C, C  Am, D7  G7
C  F  C, C  G, C


CHORD DIAGRAMS:
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   C       G7      F       G       G9

 EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE
 x32010  323000  133211  320003  323200

   C7      F/E     D7      Am      E7

 EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE
 x32310  x02010  xx0212  x02210  020100


Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2007
(clumsyband@hotmail.com)