Song Of The South - Alabama

[Jim Sagle]

Run time: 03:56 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=387IkMrd2Lc   Posted on YouTube: April 17, 2015 By YouTube Member: YouTube Help Views on YouTube: 13022959   Posted on DU: January 01, 2007 By DU Member: Jim Sagle Views on DU: 1299

 

Chorus
Song, song of the south.
Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth.
Gone, gone with the wind.
There aint 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...
Song, song of the south.
Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth.
Gone, gone with the wind.
There aint nobody looking back again.

Well somebody told us wall street fell
But we were so poor that we couldnt tell.
Cotton was short and the weeds were tall
But mr. roosevelts 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...
Song, song of the south.
Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth.
Gone, gone with the wind.
There aint nobody looking back again.

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.

Written by bob mcdill>

[Extend a Hand]

1. I'm afraid the country is going to really need another Roosevelt

if things keep going the way they're going now. My paternal grandaddy worked for Alabama Power back during the depression when they were building the four wpa damms that brought electricity to rural AL. I still visit Lake Martin every summer. In some respects the rural south may fare better than some other places this time around since many people there still have big gardens, and hunt and fish.

[RoyGBiv]

2. I love this song ...

Love the video too.

Thanks for posting.

[Acadia Blue]

3. Hearning FDR's words makes me cry. What we have now compared

in leadership is criminal in more ways than one. FDR gave hope, Bush gives fear just like Hitler

[Redstone]

4. God damn, I LOVE a song with a gospel choir. Gives me the shivers every time.

Never was much of an Alabama fan, but THIS song? Oh, yes.

Redstone

[Penndems]

5. My favorite country group - thank you for posting this!

We could use another FDR right about now. :)

[seasat]

6. Mmmmm...sweet potato pie.

I've got to pull up my Granny's recipe and make it for my sons and I after listening to that.