Bobby Bare – Alabama Rose (Guitar)

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One night I went to town

            D           A
And met a girl from Alabama

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In her eyes I saw the sadness she had seen in life

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I found out she had spent some wasted years in Chicago

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She had known a hundred men or more

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But never as a wife

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She was going home

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To start her life again in Alabama

       A
Where she had been

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And why God only knows

        A
But I loved that girl

      D                  A
And begged her just to stay with me in Nashville

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And I called that girl my Alabama Rose

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The days turned into weeks

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And I was sure she'd learned to love me

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But sometimes late at night

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I'd wake and listen to her cry

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The sun came up one morning

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And my rose was not beside me

   A
I got that feeling

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Like you want to die

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Now I wonder if she ever made it back to Alabama

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Where she is and why God only knows

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But she must know no matter where she goes

     A
My dreams go with her

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'Cause I still love my Alabama Rose

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God knows I love my Alabama Rose