Alabama, your beautiful sunlight
Your fields are so recent potatoes and corn
Alabama, your crimson red clover
All mingle around the old place I was born
Alabama, your hills and your valleys
Your creeks sing with laughter as onward they flow
Alabama, so sweet in the springtime
Sweet ferns and wild flowers and winter with snow
Alabama, so sweet to my mem'ry
You shine like a light on a beautiful hill
Alabama, in days of my childhood
I played there and toiled at the old sorghum mill
Alabama, when red leaves are fallin'
I roam through your pastures with fences of rail
Alabama, when 'possums are crawlin'
And hound dogs are howlin' and waggin' their tails.
Alabama, your beautiful highways
All curved through the mountains
Where love ones do wait.
Alabama, your golden rod flower
And the "Welcome home" sign hangin' over the gate
Alabama, to me you are callin'
My footsteps are haltered no longer to stray
Alabama, you hold all I long for
You hold all I love so I'm comin' today