Alabama Clay chords by Garth Brooks

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
C majorC   G+G   A minorAm
FF   C majorC   G+G

Verse 1:
    C majorC    G+G      A minorAm
First time he saw the ground get busted
    FF       C majorC        G+G
He was ten and it was nineteen fifty-two
   C majorC    G+G     A minorAm
His daddy worked hard from sun up to sun down
     FF   C majorC       G+G
and the going got tuff 'hind them old grey mules
  C majorC    G+G     A minorAm
The farm grew to be a money maker
    FF        C majorC       G+G
and the house he lived in grew up room by room
        C majorC     G+G        A minorAm
The boy worked hard but soon got tired of farming
       FF       G+G           C majorC
So he slipped away one night beneath the harvest moon.

Chorus 1:
       FF        C majorC
His neck was red as Alabama clay
        A minorAm        G+G
but the cities call pulled him away
          FF         C majorC
He's got a factory job and runs a big machine
         G+G           C majorC
He don't miss the farm or the fields of green.

Verse 2:
        C majorC   G+G       A minorAm
Now the cities just a prison without fences.
   FF    C majorC        G+G
His job is just a routine he can't stand
    C majorC   G+G       A minorAm
and at night he dreams of wide open spaces
    FF        C majorC        G+G
fresh dirt beneath his toes and on his hands.
    C majorC      G+G       A minorAm
Then one day a picture came inside a letter
   FF         C majorC      G+G
of a young girl with a baby in her arms.
    C majorC    G+G             A minorAm
And the words she wrote would change his life forever.
     FF        G+G         C majorC
So he went to raise his family on their farm.

Chorus 2:
       FF      C majorC
His neck is red as Alabama Clay
        A minorAm         G+G
Now he's going home this time to stay
          FF         C majorC
Where the roots run deep on the family tree
        G+G              C majorC
and the tractor rolls through the fields of green.

       FF      C majorC
His neck is red as Alabama Clay
        A minorAm         G+G
Now he's going home this time to stay
          FF         C majorC
Where the roots run deep on the family tree
        G+G              C majorC
and the tractor rolls through the fields of green.

Outro:
       FF           C majorC