Alabama Clay chords by Garth Brooks

Intro:
C   G   Am
F   C   G

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

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

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

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

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

Outro:
       F           C