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Birmingham Tab

by Randy Newman


...BIRMINGHAM... by Randy Newman
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*from 'Good Old Boys' (1974)*


*CAPO 4th FRET*

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Intro:

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Verse 1:

                
Got a wife,  got a family,
                    
 Earn my livin' with my hand.
                  
I'm a roller, in a steel mill,
                      
 In down-town Birming-ham.

Verse 2:

              
 My daddy, was a barber,
           
 And a most un-sightly man.
                       
He was born in In Tusca-loosa,
                                  
But he died right here in Birming-ham.

Chorus 1:

            
 Birmingham, Birmingham,
                     
 The greatest city in Ala-bam'.
                             
 You can travel 'cross this en-tire land,
                                    
But there ain't no place like Birming-ham.

Interlude:

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Bridge 1:


 Wife's named Mary, but she's called Marie,
                                    
 We live in a three room house with a pepper tree.
                  
I work all day in the factory;
                        
That's al-right with me.

Verse 4:

                                 
 Got a big black dog, whose name is Dan,
                      
 Lives in my backyard, in Birmingham.
                      
 He's the meanest dog in Alabam';
            
 Get 'em Dan!

Chorus 2:

            
 Birmingham, Birmingham,
                     
 The greatest city in Ala-bam'.
                             
 You can travel 'cross this en-tire land,
                                    
But there ain't no place like Birming-ham.

Outro:

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