[Intro]
              

[Verse 1]
             
Drinking was f

              
orbidden in my


 Christian cou

ntry home
            
I learned to p

              
lay the flatto

         
p on them good

 old Gospel so

ngs
             
Then I heard a

              
bout the bar r

         
ooms just acro

ss the Georgia

 line
            
Where a boy co

              
uld make a liv

           
ing playing gu

itar late at n

ight

[Verse 2]
             
Had to learn a

              
bout the ladie

      
s, too young t

o understand
            
Why the young 

              
girls fall in 

             
love with the 

boys in the ba

nd
             
When the boys 

              
turn to music,

    
 the girls jus

t turn away
            
To some other 

              
guitar picker 

       
in some other 

late night pla

ce

[Verse 3]
             
Yeah, held on 

              
to my music, I

        
 let the ladie

s walk away
            
Took my songs 

              
and dreams to 

              
Nashville then

  
 I moved on to

 L.A
             
Up to New York

           
 City all acro

ss the USA
            
I lost so much

              
 of me but the

      
re's enough of

 me to say

[Chorus]
             
That my home's

           
 in Alabama, n

           
o matter where

         
 I lay my head
             
My home's in A

           
labama, Southe

             
rn born and So

                 
uthern bred

[Verse 4]
             
What keeps me 

     
going I don't 

really know
            
Can't be the m

         
oney Lord know

s I'm always b

roke
             
Could it be th

              
e satisfaction

   
 of being unde

rstood
            
When the peopl

              
e really love 

              
you and let yo

 
u know when it

's good

[Verse 5]
             
Oh I'll speak 

              
my Southern En

             
glish just as 


natural as I p

lease
            
I'm in the hea

              
rt of Dixie, D

      
ixie's in the 

heart of me
             
And someday wh

              
en I make it, 

    
when love find

s a way
            
Somewhere high

              
 on Lookout Mo

              
untain I'll ju

  
st smile with 

pride and say

[Chorus]
             
That my home's

           
 in Alabama, n

           
o matter where

         
 I lay my head
             
My home's in A

           
labama, Southe

             
rn born and So

      
uthern bred
           
Southern born 

             
and Southern b

             
red, Southern 

            
born and South

   
ern bred

[Outro]