Drinking was forbidden in my Christian country home
I learned to play the flattop on them good old gospel songs
Then I heard about the barrooms just across the Georgia line
Where a boy could make a living playing 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
My home's in Alabama
No matter where I lay my head
My home's in Alabama
Southern born and southern bred
What keeps me going, I don't really know
Can't be the money, lord knows I'm always broke
Could it be the satisfaction of being understood
When the people really love you and let you know when it's good
I'll speak my southern English as natural as I please
I'm in the heart of Dixie, Dixie's in the heart of me
And some day when I make it, when love finds a way
Somewhere high on lookout mountain
I'll just
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