3/4 TIME (WALTZ) 
 
INTRO: PLAY INSTRUMENTALLY 
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All mingled a-round the old place I was born 
 
VERSE ONE 
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Alabama love, your beautiful sunlight 
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Your fields of cerisa, potatos and corn 
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Alabama love, your crimson red clover  
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All mingled around the old place I was born 
 
VERSE TWO 
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Alabama love , your hills and your valleys 
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Your creeks sing with laughter as onward they flow 
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Alabama love, so sweet in the springtime 
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Sweet ferns and wild flowers in winter with snow 
 
VERSE THREE 
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Alabama love, so sweet to my memory 
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You shine like a light on the beautiful hill 
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Alabama love, in days of my childhood 
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I've labored and toiled at the old sorghum mill 
 
TAGG INSTRUMENTALLY 
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I've labored and toiled at the old sorghum mill 
 
VERSE FOUR 
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Alabama love, when red leaves are falling 
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I've roamed through your pastures with fences of rail 
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Alabama love, when possums are crawling and  
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And hound dogs are whining and wagging their tails 
 
VERSE FIVE 
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Alabama love, your beautiful high-ways 
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Are carved through the mountain where loved ones do wait 
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Alabama love, your goldenrod flowers 
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And the welcome home sign hanging over the gate 
 
VERSE SIX 
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Alabama love, to me you are calling 
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My footsteps are homin' no longer to stray  
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Alabama love, you hold all I long for 
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You hold all I love, so I'm coming today