Alabama

Alabama will I ever reach your borderline How I long to smell the sweetness of that longleaf pine Alabama cast your Southern sun upon my face And may your red dirt be my final resting place Maryanna will you tell our mother I'll be home When the bonnie blue flag flies above our land Maryanna where you are the spring would soon arrive And I pray it melts the snowbank where I stand Alabama will I ever reach your borderline How I long to smell the sweetness of that longleaf pine Alabama, cast your Southern sun upon my face And may your red dirt be my final resting place Maryanna please remember the innocence I knew When I only took my rifle up for game Alabama will you keep your country pure for me Or will Sherman's men have ravaged all your plains Alabama will I ever reach your borderline How I long to smell the sweetness of that longleaf pine Alabama, cast your Southern sun upon my face And may your red dirt be my final resting place Oooooh Alabama will I ever reach your borderline How I long to smell the sweetness of that longleaf pine Alabama, cast your Southern sun upon my face And may your red dirt be my final resting place And may your red dirt be my final resting place