...BIRMINGHAM... by Randy Newman
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*from 'Good Old Boys' (1974)*
4th
(Original Key: E)
Intro:
C G7, F C, C G, C
Verse 1:
Got a wife, got a family,
Earn my livin' with my hand.
I'm a roller, in a steel mill,
In down-town Birming-ham.
Verse 2:
My daddy, was a barber,
And a most un-sightly man.
He was born in In Tusca-loosa,
But he died right here in Birming-ham.
Chorus 1:
Birmingham, Birmingham,
The greatest city in Ala-bam'.
You can travel 'cross this en-tire land,
But there ain't no place like Birming-ham.
Interlude:
C F C, C Am, D7 G7
C, G,
Bridge 1:
Wife's named Mary, but she's called Marie,
We live in a three room house with a pepper tree.
I work all day in the factory;
That's al-right with me.
Verse 4:
Got a big black dog, whose name is Dan,
Lives in my backyard, in Birmingham.
He's the meanest dog in Alabam';
Get 'em Dan!
Chorus 2:
Birmingham, Birmingham,
The greatest city in Ala-bam'.
You can travel 'cross this en-tire land,
But there ain't no place like Birming-ham.
Outro:
C F C, C Am, D7 G7
C, G,
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Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2007
(clumsyband@hotmail.com)