Chords for My Home's In Alabama

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Drinking was forbidden in my Christian country home.
I learned to play the flat [G] top on some good old gospel songs.
[C] And I heard about the bar [A] rooms just across the Georgia line, where a boy could make a
living [D] playing the guitar late at night.
Had to learn about the ladies too young to understand, why the young girls fall in love
[G] with the boys in the band.
[C] When the boys turn their music, [A] all the girls just turn away to some other guitar picker
in [D] some other late night place.
Yeah, I held on to my music, let the ladies walk away.
Took my songs and dreams to Nashville, [G] then I moved on to L.A.
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Up to New York City, [A] all across the USA.
I've lost so much of me, but [D] there's enough of me to say.
That [G] my _ [A] home's in [D] Alabama, no [Am] matter where I [D] lay my head. _ _
[G] My home's in [F#m] Alabama, _ [G] southern lawn and [D] southern bread. _ _
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What keeps me going, I don't really know.
_ Can't be the money, [G] Lord knows I'm always broke.
[C] Could it be the satisfaction [A] of being understood, when the people really love you and [D] let you
know when it's good.
Well I speak my southern English, just as natural as I please.
Cause I'm in the heart of Dixie, [G] Dixie's in the heart of me. _
[C] Someday when I make it, [A] when luck finds the way.
Somewhere high on Lookout Mountain, I'll [D] just smile with pride and say.
That my [G] _ [A] home's in [D] Alabama, no [Am] matter where [A] I [D] lay my head.
[G] My _ home's in [F#m] Alabama, _ [G] southern lawn _ [D] and southern bread. _
[Am] Southern lawn [D] and southern bread. _
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[Am] bread.
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[G] That my _ _ [A] home's in _ Alabama, no [Am] matter where I [D] lay my head.
_ [G] My _ _ home's in [F#m] Alabama, _ _ southern [G]
lawn and [D] southern bread. _ _
[Am] Southern lawn _ and [D] southern bread. _
[Am] Southern lawn _ and southern [D] bread.
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