Pride Of Alabama

	  		by Yonder Mountain String Band 
 
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Verse 1: 
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Dixie was the pride of Alabama 
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I met her on a lonesome midnight train 
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Rollin' slowly out of Union Station 
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She was staring out the window at the rain 
 
 
Verse 2: 
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Well Dixie was from sunny Alabama 
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Those old steel rails would roll to Birmingham 
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Mobile, her final destination 
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I looked down at the ticket in her hand 
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Southbound train it ain't you I know that done her wrong 
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Say again that you seen it coming all along 
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All that she knew those sweet memories it's true 
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Dixie darling caught her southbound train 

Verse 3: 
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Dixie asked if I'd been to Alabama 
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Her voice was thick like some old southern night 
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And maybe for the sake of conversation 
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I said back in '88 or '89  
 
 
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She said her daddy's fields were full of cotton 
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By the river that she swam in as a child 
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Lord she loved those sweet magnolia blossoms 
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And that good ol' Honeysuckle growing wild 
 
 
{ Chorus } 
 
 
Verse 5: 
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Dixie told me how she got to Denver 
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A southern gal who coudn't stand the cold 
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She fell in love and left Mobile forsaken 
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Mistaken for a dusty pot of gold 
 
 
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Dixie let the pieces fall together 
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And painted up this picture in my mind 
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Mobile, Alabama was a-callin' her back 
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And the Pride of Alabama was on time 
 
 
{ Chorus }