Tom: F (intro - play instrumentally) F Bb F C F All mingled a-round the old place i was born (verse 1) F Bb F Alabama love, your beautiful sunlight Bb F C Your fields of cerisa, potatos and corn F Bb F Alabama love, your crimson red clover Bb F C F All mingled around the old place i was born (verse 2) F Bb F Alabama love , your hills and your valleys Bb F C Your creeks sing with laughter as onward they flow F Bb F Alabama love, so sweet in the springtime Bb F C F Sweet ferns and wild flowers in winter with snow (verse 3) F Bb F Alabama love, so sweet to my memory Bb F C You shine like a light on the beautiful hill F Bb F Alabama love, in days of my childhood Bb F C F I've labored and toiled at the old sorghum mill (tagg instrumentally) F Bb F C F I've labored and toiled at the old sorghum mill (verse 4) F Bb C Alabama love, when red leaves are falling Bb F C I've roamed through your pastures with fences of rail F Bb F Alabama love, when possums are crawling and Bb C F And hound dogs are whining and wagging their tails (verse 5) F Bb F Alabama love, your beautiful high-ways Bb F C F Are carved through the mountain where loved ones do wait F Bb F Alabama love, your goldenrod flowers Bb F C F And the welcome home sign hanging over the gate (verse 6) F Bb F Alabama love, to me you are calling Bb F C F My footsteps are homin' no longer to stray F Bb F Alabama love, you hold all i long for Bb F C F You hold all i love, so i'm coming today