Pride Of Alabama chords by Yonder Mountain String Band

• Capo on 4th

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Pride of Alabama - Yonder Mountain String Band
Capo 4

E|---------------------------------------0--|
B|--3-0----------0-1-3-3-3-0-3/5-5-5\3-1-1--|
G|------0-0-0-2--------------------------0--|
D|---------------------------------------2--|
A|---------------------------------------3--|
E|------------------------------------------|

Verse 1:
              G
Dixie was the pride of Alabama
 G                 C
I met her on a lonesome midnight train
 D             G
Rollin' slowly out of Union Station
 G                   D
She was staring out the window at the rain

Verse 2:
 G
Well Dixie was from sunny Alabama
 G                   C
Those old steel rails would roll to Birmingham
 D           G
Mobile, her final destination
 G                 D
I looked down at the ticket in her hand

Chorus:
       C       D         G
Southbound train it ain't you I know that done her wrong
   C       D       G
Say again that you seen it coming all along
 G               C
All that she knew those sweet memories it's true
    G         D      G
Dixie darling caught her southbound train

Verse 3:
 G
Dixie asked if I'd been to Alabama
 G                      C
Her voice was thick like some old southern night
   D             G
And maybe for the sake of conversation
 G           D
I said back in '88 or '89

Verse 4:
 G
She said her daddy's fields were full of cotton
 G                  C
By the river that she swam in as a child
 D                 G
Lord she loved those sweet magnolia blossoms
 G                  D
And that good ol' Honeysuckle growing wild

Chorus:
       C       D         G
Southbound train it ain't you I know that done her wrong
   C       D       G
Say again that you seen it coming all along
 G               C
All that she knew those sweet memories it's true
    G         D      G
Dixie darling caught her southbound train

Verse 5:
 G
Dixie told me how she got to Denver
 G                  C
A southern gal who coudn't stand the cold
   D               G
She fell in love and left Mobile forsaken
 G             D
Mistaken for a dusty pot of gold

Verse 6:
 G
Dixie let the pieces fall together
 G                 C
And painted up this picture in my mind
      D      G
Mobile, Alabama was a-callin' her back
 G                D
And the Pride of Alabama was on time

Chorus:
       C       D         G
Southbound train it ain't you I know that done her wrong
   C       D       G
Say again that you seen it coming all along
 G               C
All that she knew those sweet memories it's true
    G         D      G
Dixie darling caught her southbound train