King Of Alabama chords by Brent Cobb

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: E MajorE

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:
|E MajorE |A augmentedA |E MajorE |A augmentedA |E MajorE |A augmentedA
|E MajorE |A augmentedA

Verse 1:
     E MajorE
Well, I didn't know him best
A augmentedA
He'd say we were friends
  BB               E MajorE
We both rode the highways on the song
    E MajorE            A augmentedA
So I'm writing this one here in memory of him
      BB             E MajorE
'Cause the King of Alabama has gone home

Verse 2:
     E MajorE
He was a man among men, the old-school kind
    A augmentedA
Had a great big heart, a laid-back mind
     BB
Let you hold his guitar if you broke his string
     A augmentedA                BB
If you thought he looked country, outta heard him sing

Verse 3:
    E MajorE
From Alabama 'cross the Rio Grande
       A augmentedA
He beat the blacktop down with a five-piece band
   BB
Not because he loved it - he did that too -
   A augmentedA                    BB
But he did it man 'cause that's what he was born to do

Chorus 1:
C# minorC#m      G# minorG#m
Some people calculate moves
A augmentedA        E MajorE
He never had a thing to prove
C# minorC#m            G# minorG#m     A augmentedA  E MajorE
He just let the wind take him where it may
    F# minorF#m
It's a damn shame the way things go
   G# minorG#m
It's too bad we have to lose the good folks
    A augmentedA    G# minorG#m  F# minorF#m  BB      E MajorE  |A augmentedA
But the King of Alabama     has gone home

|E MajorE |A augmentedA

Verse 4:
    E MajorE                  A augmentedA
"Nothin' good ever happens after midnight," so the story goes
BB            A augmentedA          BB
You can't trust nobody, it don't matter how close
      E MajorE              A augmentedA
It was a friend that took him from his family
       BB
I keep his chain in my pocket, his son in my prayers
    A augmentedA          BB
Every stage I'm on, I can feel him there

Chorus 1:
C# minorC#m     G# minorG#m
Some people calculate moves
A augmentedA         E MajorE
He never had a thing to prove
C# minorC#m            G# minorG#m     A augmentedA  E MajorE
He just let the wind take him where it may
    F# minorF#m
It's a damn shame the way things go
   G# minorG#m
It's too bad we have to lose the good folks
    A augmentedA    F# minorF#m  BB
But the King of Alabama  has gone home

Solo:
|C# minorC#m |G# minorG#m |A augmentedA G# minorG#m F# minorF#m |A augmentedA G# minorG#m F# minorF#m
|A augmentedA BB F# minorF#m |BB

Chorus 2:
C# minorC#m       G# minorG#m
Some people calculate moves
  A augmentedA      E MajorE
He never had a thing to prove
C# minorC#m            G# minorG#m      A augmentedA E MajorE
He just let the wind take him where it may
C# minorC#m        G# minorG#m
Honky tonks would trip
A augmentedA         E MajorE
Get a guitar and beg him to pick
    C#C#     G# minorG#m      A augmentedA   E MajorE
Let the old tunes posses you and play
    F# minorF#m
It's a damn shame the way things go
   G# minorG#m
It's too bad we have to lose the good folks
    A augmentedA    G# minorG#m F# minorF#m
But the King of Alabama
  A augmentedA    G# minorG#m F# minorF#m
The King of Alabama
  A augmentedA    G# minorG#m F# minorF#m BB      E MajorE  BB A augmentedA
The King of Alabama   has gone home