You told me late last night you wished I'd leave you but I don't have anyplace to go I'll do anything I can to make you happy but your love for me is
Even the loser likes to dream Sometimes my lips pretend that they're touching yours again Then with open arms I whisper your name Then my misty eyes grow
When we're all alone dear and I'm in your arms are you teasing me When you're telling me how you thrill to my charms are you teasing me Are you untrue
With just an empty two-room flat but eyes full of dreams Two rooms of hope and the world full of love dream for better things Our dreams came true but
Alabama your beautiful sunlight your fields are so recent potatoes and corn Alabama your crimson red clover all mingle around the old place I was born
My life was empty so blue and alone Then you've put your hand in mine and I knew why I was born Born to love you born to love you born to share your smiles
Though I can't come to see you every day It just happened things turned out that way But that don't mean you're not the apple of your daddy's eye And
Well now it takes more than a robin to make the winter go I know it takes two lips of fire to melt away the snow Well it takes two hearts a cooking to
Hey daddy I need a drink of water those are the sounds I'm living by Not long ago my ears thought they were happy When a jukebox in a bar was turned up
A canvas covered cabin in a crowded labor camp Stand out in this mem'ry I revive Cause my daddy raised a family there with two hard working hands And
All the things that I denied saying everyone had lied That I could never ever do these things to you I confess now that you're gone they were right I
We're holding on with nothing left to hold on to I'm so tired of holding on to nothin' The years have shown no kindness for the hard times we've been
I'll remember always no I won't forget you I'll remember always each adventure that we dared I'll remember always all the happiness we ever shared Then
Today I found a dollar on the sidewalk so I went and bought a jug of wine And I'll sit here in this alley and keep drinkin' Until the thoughts of mama
It must have been an awful thing that someone did to you That built the wall around your heart that I can't break through I can't erase I can't replace
I just came in here tonight to get somebody off my mind I just want to be alone my heartache and my wine So if it's all the same to you my friend just
I just finished reading one of your sweet letters That you wrote before we made our sacred vow And the way you said you felt tonight you wrote it Is far
I could give you pretty clothes show you off downtown Make you so happy all the time And I could be so proud of you brag about the things you do But I