Guitar chords Alabama Clay

Key:  D
D
                        
A
                                                          
Bm
                                
G
                                    
D
                                  
A
 Asus
First time he saw the ground get busted he was ten and it was nineteen   fifty two
        
D
                                                                    
A
                      
Bm
 
His daddy worked hard from sun up to sun down
                      
G
                                  
D
                                                
A
 
and the going got tuff hind them old grey mules.
            
D
                                
A
                              
Bm
 
The farm grew to be a money maker
                      
G
                                            
D
                                          
A
 
and the house he lived in grew up room by room
            
D
                                                      
A
                                          
Bm
 
The boy worked hard but soon got tired of farming
                  
G
                                              
A
                                                                    
D
 
So he slipped away one night beneath the harvest moon.
                                                              
G
                                          
D
 
    his neck was red as Alabama clay
                                            
Bm
                                  
A
 
    but the cities call pulled him away
                                                                          
G
                                                        
D
 
    he's hot a factory job and runs a big machine
                                                                          
A
                                                    
D
 
    he don't miss the farm or the fields of green.
                          
D
                            
A
                                    
Bm
 
Now the cities just a prison without fences.
          
G
                              
D
                                        
A
 
His job is just a routine he can't stand
                    
D
                                                
A
                          
Bm
 
and at night he dreams of wide open spaces
                
G
                                      
D
                                        
A
 
fresh dirt beneath his toes and on his hands.
                            
D
                                
A
                                    
Bm
 
Then one day a picture came inside a letter
            
G
                                        
D
                              
A
 
of a young girl with a baby in her arms.
                        
D
                                                              
A
                                    
Bm
 
And the words she wrote would change his life forever.
                  
G
                                          
A
                                  
D
 
So he went to raise his family on the farm.
                                                        
G
                                        
D
 
    his neck is red as Alabama Clay
                                                                    
Bm
                                        
A
 
X2   now he's going home this time to stay
                                                                                
G
                                                
D
 
    where the roots run deep on the family tree
                                                                  
A
                                                                    
D
 
    and the tractor rolls through the fields of green.
                                  
G
                                                  
D
 
His neck is red......as Alabama clay.
Well this is my version, I hope it works for you!   Feel free to respond with sugestions.   Sorry for any unseen mistakes.     Later   [email protected]