Greatest Hits Vol 2

Alabama Greatest Hits Vol 2 Lyrics
1.Born Country

Lyrics:John Schweers/Byron Hill
Music:John Schweers/Byron Hill

Clear creeks and cool mountain mornin's.
Honest work out in the fields.
Cornbread in my momma's kitchen.
Daddy saying grace before the meal.
Family ties run deep in this land.
And I'm never very far from what I am.

Chorus
I was born country and that's what I'll always be.
Like the rivers and the woodlands wild and free.
I got a hundred years of down home running through my blood.
I was born country and this country's what I love.

Moonlight and you hear beside me.
Crickets serenadin' in the yard.
What more could two people ask for.
Laying here in love beneath the stars.
Now this is where I wanna raise my kids.
Just the way my mom and daddy did.

Chorus 2X
I was born country


2.Then Again


3.Dixieland Delight

Lyrics:Ronnie Rogers
Music:Ronnie Rogers

Rollin' down a backwoods Tennessee byway, one arm on the wheel,
holdin' my
lover with the other:a sweet, soft, Southern thrill.
Worked hard all week; got a little jingle on a Tennessee
Saturday night.
Couldn't feel better: I'm together with my Dixieland Delight.

Chorus:
Spend my dollar; parked in a holler 'neath the mountain
moonlight; hold her
uptight; make a little lovin', a little turtle dovin' on a Mason
Dixon night.
Fits my life, oh, so right: My Dixieland Delight.

Whitetail buck deer munchin' on clover, redtail hawk settin' on
a limb, a
chubby old groundhog, croakin' bullfrog, free as the feelin' in
the wind.
Home grown country girl gonna give me a whirl on a Tennessee
Saturday night.
Lucky as a seven livin' in heaven with my Dixieland Delight.

Chorus

Repeat first verse


4.Lady Down on Love

Lyrics:Randy Owen
Music:Randy Owen

It's her first night on the town since she was just eighteen, a
lady down on
love and out of hope and dreams.
The ties that once bound her now are broke away, and she's like
a baby, just
learning how to play.

She never thought that love could ever end so soon.
Her mind drifts back in time to a mid-summer moon when he asked
her to marry
and she glady said O.K.
And a woman came to be from the girl of yesterday.

Now she's a lady down on love.
She needs somebody to gentley pick her up.
She's got her freedom, but she'd rather be bound to a man who
would love her
and never let her down.

Well, I know a lady that's down on her love, 'cause I used to
hold her and
have that special touch.
But work took me a way from home late at nights, and I wasn't
there when she
turned out the lights.
Then both of us got lonely and I gave into lust, and she just
couldn't live
with a man she couldn't trust.

Now she's a lady down on love.
She needs somebody to gently pcik her up.
She's got her freedom, but she'd rather be bound to man who
would love her
and never let her down.
Now she's a lady down on love.


5.The Closer You Get

Written:James P.Pennington/Mark Gray

Chorus:
The closer you get, the further I fall.
I'll be over the edge now in no time at all.
I'm falling faster and faster and faster with no time to stall.
The closer you get, the further I fall.

The things that you say to me, the look on your face, brings out
the man in
me.
Do I see a trace in your eyes of love?

Chorus

Could I be dreamin'?
Is this really real?
'Cause there's something magic the way that I feel in your arms
tonight.

Chorus

Keep fallin', oh, yeah, yeah, keep fallin', mm, fallin', oh,
yeah, yeah, I'm
fallin'.

Yes, I'm fallin'. Yes, I'm fallin'. Yes, I'm fallin'.
Yes, I'm fallin'. Yes, I'm fallin'. Yes, I'm fallin'.
Yes, I'm fallin'. Yes, I'm fallin'. Yes, I'm fallin'.

Chorus


6.Roll On(Eighteen Wheeler)

Lyrics:Dave Loggins
Music:Dave Loggins

Roll On

cb talk( How bout ya Alabama Roll on)

(chorus)
Roll on highway, roll on along
Roll on daddy till you get back home
Roll on family, roll on crew
Roll on momma like I asked you to do
And roll on eighteen-wheeler roll on (roll on)

It's Monday morning, he's kissin' momma goodbye
He's up and gone with the sun
Daddy drives an eighteen-wheeler
And he's off on a midwest run
As three sad faces gather round momma
They ask her when daddy's comin' home
Daddy drives an eighteen-wheeler
And they sure miss him when he's gone (yeah they do)
Ah, but he calls them everynight and he tells them that he loves
them
And he taught them this song to sing

(chorus)
Roll on highway, Roll on along
Roll on daddy till ya get back home
Roll on family, Roll on crew
Roll on momma like I asked you to do
And roll on eighteen-wheeler roll on (roll on)

It's Wednesday evening, momma's waitin by the phone
It rings but it's not his voice
Seems the highway patrol has found a jacknifed rig
In a snow bank in Illinois
But the driver was missin' and the search had been abandoned

For the weather had everything strong
And they had checked all the houses and local motels
When they had somemore news they'd call
And she told them when they found him to tell him that she loved
him
And she hung up the phone singin'

(chorus)
Roll on highway, roll on along
Roll on daddy till ya get back home
Roll on family, roll on crew
Roll on momma like I asked you to do
And roll on eighteen-wheeler roll on

Momma and the children will be waiting up all night long
Thinkin' nothing but the words just comin'
With the ringin' of the telephone
Oh, but the man upstairs was listening
When momma asked him to bring daddy home
And when the call came in it was daddy on the other end
Askin' her if she had been singin' the song, singin'

(chorus)
Roll on highway, roll on along
Roll on daddy till ya get back home
Roll on family, roll on crew
Roll on momma like I asked you to do
And roll on eighteen-wheeler

(chorus)
Roll on highway, roll on along
Roll on daddy till ya get back home
Roll on family, roll on crew
Roll on momma like I asked you to do
And roll on eighteen-wheeler roll on (roll on)

eighteen-wheeler
eighteen-wheeler
eighteen-wheeler
eighteen-wheeler

Roll on
Roll on


7.Fallin' Again


8.Song of the South

Lyrics:Bob Mcdill
Music:Bob Mcdill

Chorus
Song, song of the south.
Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth.
Gone, gone with the wind.
There ain't nobody looking back again.

Cotton on the roadside, cotton in the ditch.
We all picked the cotton but we never got rich.
Daddy was a veteran, a southern democrat.
They oughta get a rich man to vote like that.

Sing it...
Chorus

Well somebody told us Wall Street fell
But we were so poor that we couldn't tell.
Cotton was short and the weeds were tall
But Mr. Roosevelt's a gonna save us all.

Well momma got sick and daddy got down.
The county got the farm and they moved to town.
Pappa got a job with the TVA
He bought a washing machine and then a Chevrolet.

Sing it...
Chorus

Play it...

Sing it...
Chorus

Song, song of the south...
Gone, gone with the wind...

Song, song of the south.
Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth.
Song, song of the south.
Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth.

Sing it...
Chorus 2X


9.High Cotton

Written:Roger Murrah/Scott Anders

We didn't know the times were lean
Round our home the grass was green
It didn't seem like things were all that bad
I bet we walked a thousand miles
Chopin' cotton and pushin' plows
And learnin' how to give it all we had.

As life went on and years went by
I saw the light in daddy's eyes
And felt - the love in mama's hands
They kept us warm and kept us fed
Taught us how to look ahead
Now lookin' back, I think I understand.

Chorus:
We Were Walkin' in High Cotton
Old times there are not forgotten
Those fertile fields are never far away
We Were Walkin' in High Cotton
Old times there are not forgotten
Leavin' home was the hardest thing we ever faced.

When Sunday morning rolled around
We dressed up in hand-me downs
Just in time, together with the church
Sometimes I think how long it's been
And how it impressed me then
It was the only day my daddy wouldn't work.

Chorus X2

We Were Walkin' In High Cotton.


10.Take Me Down

Lyrics:J.P.Pennington/Mark Gray
Music:J.P.Pennington/Mark Gray

Fly away with me tonight.
Take me on a one-way flight in your lovin' arms, and
ev'rything's gonna be alright.
You're the one who took my hand when no one else could
understand.
You're the one who moves me like nobody else can.

Chorus:
Take me down where I wanna be.
Turn around, the man who lives inside of me.
Take me down and love me all night long.
Hold me close and make me strong.
Take me down. Take me down tonight.

In your eyes I see the light.
It's your emotions glowin' bright.
So keep the fires burnin', and let it warm me through the night.
You can be a part of me, 'cause you're what love was meant to
be.
You and me, baby, we'll set the flame inside free.

Chorus

You don't have to stay forever
Let's just put our hearts together, share another night in
ecstasy.
We know that it's feelin' better ev'ry time we get together.
Maybe love was meant for you and me. Whoa, take me down

where I wanna be.
Turn around, the man who lives inside of me.
Take me down and love me all night long.
Hold me close and make me strong.
Take me down. Take me down tonight.

Take me down tonight. Take me down tonight. Take me down
tonight.


11.Hats Off