Just south of mobile

Daddy played guitar

In honky tonk bar

'Cause he couldn't make a livin'

In the steal biss



Mama ran off with a travelin' man

when we were about half grown

& when the sun went down

Daddy'd go downtown & us kids

would tag along



Chorus:

We'd listen to him sing

& play the guitar

from a table in the back

we'd harmonize

we did not know

we were alabama po' folks

we had a star shining for us everynight

he brought sweet harmony into our lives



You could tell when he'd sing about Mama

By the tears in his eyes

His voice would sound all lonely & down

like her name when he'd call it in the night



then he'd hit them strings 

make the guitar ring

& folks would clap their hands

no son or daughter

every had a father

who could be an any richer man



Chorus:

He taught us how to sing

& play the guitar

from a table in the back

we'd harmonize

we did not know

we were alabama po' folks

we had a star shinin for us all the time

we brought sweet harmony into our lives



I can still hear him sing

& play the guitar

& it takes me back

to better times

we did not know

we were alabama po' folks

we had a start shinin' for us all the time

he brought sweet harmony into our lives

he brought sweet harmony into our lives