Nothing Sweet About Alabama

(album: Silent City - 2020)

We got Muscle Shoals, sure enough, boys can swamp it up
Party by the train tracks, Rivera rednecks
And the world's hottest cheerleaders

We got Southern rock, what's it to ya?
Blind Boys, Hallelujah!
Moon pies, roll tide, Friday night beneath the lights
Life's sweeter than Georgia peaches

But all of those things don't seem to thrill me
Swigging sour mash, is only gonna kill me

Girl, since you're gone
Nothing's sweet about this home
Ain't nothing sweet about Alabama
Don't play that song
All the words are just plain wrong
Ain't nothing sweet about Alabama

Had an Amen, so right, country cutie by my side
Farm grown, good looking, hot sauce, southern cooking
She was down home delicious
She got a head full of big dreams, chased 'em up to Tennessee
Stole my best guitar, singing Skynard in a bar
Lord knows who she's been kissing

I asked the good Lord in church on Sunday
Please bring her back home to Montgomery

Girl, since you're gone
Nothing's sweet about this home
Ain't nothing sweet about Alabama
Don't play that song
All the words are just plain wrong
Ain't nothing sweet about Alabama

The skies are so gray and that's the truth
These big wheels are turning straight for you

Girl, since you're gone
Nothing's sweet about this home
Ain't nothing sweet about Alabama
Don't play that song
I don't wanna sing along
Ain't nothing sweet
Ain't nothing sweet
Ain't nothing sweet about Alabama