[CHORUS]
G C G
Where the pines meet the shoreline with the Delta summer breeze
G D
Where the Spanish moss is hangin' off an old magnolia tree
G C G
You can hear the Dixie whippoorwill, her morning song she sings
D G G/F#
Lay me down in Alabama when you go to bury me
[VERSE I]
G/F# Em C G
Oh, lay me down in Alabama, maybe somewhere 'round Mobile
G D
Where the hands of time've been left behind like a dusty cottonfield
G G/F# Em C G
Oh, throw my ashes o'er the causeway or the Mississippi line
G D
Gotta past that's beat and battered but my family still resides
G G/F# Em C
Oh, lay me down in Alabama
[CHORUS]
G C G
Where the pines meet the shoreline with the Delta summer breeze
G D
Where the Spanish moss is hangin' off an old magnolia tree
G C G
You can hear the Dixie whippoorwill, her morning song she sings
G D G
Lay me down in Alabama when you go to bury me
[VERSE II]
G/F# Em C G
Oh, lay me down in Alabama where the Tensaw tends to break
G D
Gimme that old time religion that your spirit just can't shake
G G/F# Em C G
They say home is where the heart is, and Lord I still believe
G D
If it's good enough for Hank Williams then it's good for me
G G/F# Em
Oh, lay me down
[INSTRUMENTAL]
Em C G
E|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
B|-8---8---3---3---3-----3-----3---|-----3-------3-------3-------3---|
G|-7h9-7---2h4-2---3p2-0-----0-----|-----0-------0-------0-------0---|
D|-----------------------0h2---0h2-|---------0h2-0-----------0h2---2-|
A|---------------------------------|-3-------------0-----------------|
E|---------------------------------|-----------------3---------------|
G D Em G/F#
E|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
B|-3-----3-----3-----3-------------|-----3-------3-------3-----------|
G|-3p2p0-3p2p0-3p2p0-3p2p0-----0---|-----2-------2-------2-----------|
D|-------------------------0h2---2-|-0-------0-------0---------------|
A|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------|-------------------------0---2---|
[CHORUS]
Em G/F# G C G
Where the pines meet the shoreline with the Delta summer breeze
G D
Where the Spanish moss is hangin' off an old magnolia tree
G C G
You can hear the Dixie whippoorwill, her morning song she sings
G D G
Lay me down in Alabama when you go to bury me
G/F# Em C
Oh, lay me down in Alabama
[OUTRO]
(played like a mountain dulcimer)
G C
E|---------|----------------------------------|---------------------------------|
B|-3---3---|-3-------3------3-3---3---3-------|-3--------3-------3--------------|
G|-0---2---|-2h4-----4------5-3---2---0-------|-0------------0---0--------------|
D|---------|------------------------------0---|-0h2------------0-0--------------|
A|---------|----------------------------------|-3-------------------------------|
E|-3-------|-3-----------3--------------------|------------------3--------------|