Birmingham

Album: Good Old Boys (1974)
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  • Got a wife got a family
    Earn my livin' with my hand
    I'm a roller in a steel mill
    In downtown Birmingham

    My daddy was a barber
    And a most unsightly man
    He was born in Tuscaloosa
    But he died right here in Birmingham

    [Chorus]
    Birmingham Birmingham
    The greatest city in Alabam'
    You can travel 'cross this entire land
    But there's no place like Birmingham

    Got a wife named Mary
    But she's called Marie
    We live in a three room house
    With a pepper tree
    And I work all day in the factory
    That's alright with me

    Got a big black dog
    And his name is Dan
    Who lives in my backyard in Birmingham
    He is the meanest dog in Alabam'
    Get 'em Dan

    [Chorus] Writer/s: RANDY NEWMAN
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Bill from UsLove the Joplin/Ragtime piano on this song, but what I really love is how they pop that pedal steal note before he sings about his wife. It sounds like something Oscar Hammerstein and Jerome Kern could have written in the 30's too.
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