King Of Alabama

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[Verse 1]
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Well, I didn't know him best
A
He'd say we were friends
    B                             E
We both rode the highways on the song
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So I'm writing this one here in memory of him
           B                         E
'Cause the King of Alabama has gone home

[Verse 2]
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He was a man among men, the old-school kind
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Had a great big heart, a laid-back mind
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Let you hold his guitar if you broke his string
         A                               B
If you thought he looked country, outta heard him sing

[Verse 3]
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From Alabama 'cross the Rio Grande
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He beat the blacktop down with a five-piece band
     B
Not because he loved it - he did that too -
      A                                       B
But he did it man 'cause that's what he was born to do

[Chorus 1]
C#m           G#m
Some people calculate moves
A               E
He never had a thing to prove
C#m                        G#m         A    E
He just let the wind take him where it may
       F#m
It's a damn shame the way things go
     G#m
It's too bad we have to lose the good folks
        A        G#m    F#m   B            E    |A
But the King of Alabama          has gone home

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[Verse 4]
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"Nothin' good ever happens after midnight," so the story goes
B                       A                    B
You can't trust nobody, it don't matter how close
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It was a friend that took him from his family
             B
I keep his chain in my pocket, his son in my prayers
       A                   B
Every stage I'm on, I can feel him there

[Chorus 1]
C#m          G#m
Some people calculate moves
A                 E
He never had a thing to prove
C#m                        G#m         A   E
He just let the wind take him where it may
        F#m
It's a damn shame the way things go
     G#m
It's too bad we have to lose the good folks
        A        F#m    B
But the King of Alabama    has gone home

[Solo]
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[Chorus 2]
C#m             G#m
Some people calculate moves
    A           E
He never had a thing to prove
C#m                       G#m           A  E
He just let the wind take him where it may
C#m                G#m
Honky tonks would trip
A                 E
Get a guitar and beg him to pick
        C#          G#m            A     E
Let the old tunes posses you and play
        F#m
It's a damn shame the way things go
     G#m
It's too bad we have to lose the good folks
        A        G#m F#m
But the King of Alabama
    A       G#m F#m
The King of Alabama
    A        G#m F#m B            E   B A
The King of Alabama     has gone home