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Alabama Clay
Recorded by Garth Brooks
Written by Ronny Scaife and Larry Cordle

C             G7                 Am     C
First time he saw the ground get busted
       F                 C  G7
He was ten and it was 1952
    C                      G7       Am     C
His daddy worked hard from sunup to sundown
        F                                    G7
And the goin' got tough behind them ol' grey mules

    C            G7        Am   C
The farm grew to be a moneymaker 
        F                                 C   G7
And the house he lived in grew up room by room
    C                   G7                Am      C
The boy worked hard but soon got tired of farmin'
      D7               G7                      C
So he slipped away one night neath the harvest moon

             F              C
His neck was red as Alabama clay
               F  C             G7
But the city's c-all pulled him away
                   F                  C
He's got a factory job and runs a big machine
                  G7                    C     G7
He don't miss the farm or the fields of green

        C             G7             Am    C
Now the city's just a prison without fences
    F                              C     G7
His job is just a routine he can't stand
       C                  G7        Am    C
And at night he dreams of wide open spaces
      F                                G7
Fresh dirt between his toes and on his hands

         C             G7            Am    C
Then one day a picture came inside a letter
     F                             C   G7
Of a young girl with a baby in her arms
        C                    G7              Am     G7
And the words she wrote will change his life forever
      D7                G7            C
So he went to raise his family on the farm

            F              C
His neck is red as Alabama clay
               F  C               G7
Now he's goin' h-ome this time to stay
                    F                  C
Where the roots run deep on the family tree
                G7                          C
And the tractor rolls through the fields of green

repeat last verse

            F              C
His neck is red as Alabama clay

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