Alabama Chords

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Alabama by Louvin Brothers is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of F. It uses the chords F, Bb and C. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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F
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Speed
  			
3/4 TIME (WALTZ) 
 
INTRO: PLAY INSTRUMENTALLY 
F    Bb       F             C           F 
All mingled a-round the old place I was born 
 
 
VERSE ONE 
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 TWO 
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 THREE 
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 FOUR 
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 FIVE 
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 SIX 
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 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante