My Homes In Alabama

4/4 time   Here’s the pattern I use to play the acoustic music in the background (very    close to yours)(unfortunately I can’t play any lead parts on it right now):         (                   )   -------------------------------------------------   -------1------------1-----------3------------3---   ----0-----0------0-----0-----2-----2------2-----2   --------------------------0------------0---------   -0------------0----------------------------------   -------------------------------------------------   I just use that same type of pattern for all of the chords each note picked    being an 8th note.   (            )   (repeat once)   ()Drinkin’ was forbidden in my ()Christian country home   I ()learned to play the flattop on them ()good ol’ Gospel songs   Then I ()heard about the barrooms just a()cross the Georgia line   Where a ()boy could make a livin’ playin’ ()guitar late at night     (same chords for other verses)   Had to learn about the ladies; too young to understand    why the young girls fall in love with the boys in the band   When the boys turn to music the girls just turn away    to some other guitar picker in some other late night place   Yeah I held on to my music; I let the ladies walk away   took my songs and dreams to Nashville and then on to L.A.   Up to New York City all across the USA   I lost so much of me but there’s enough of me to say (that my)   .()-.home’s -()in Ala()bama no matter ()where I lay my ()head   My ()home’s()in Ala()bama Southern ()born and Southern ()bred   (        )     What keeps me goin’?  I don’t really know.   can’t be the money the Lord knows I’m always broke   could it be the satisfaction of bein’ understood   when the people really love ya and let you know when it’s good   Well I’ll speak my Southern English just as natural as I please   I’m in the heart of Dixie Dixie’s in the heart of me   and someday when I make it when love finds a way   somewhere high on Lookout Mountain I’ll just smile with pride and say that my