Gone To Alabama - Mickey Newbury

Oh lo de lea I am gone to Alabama

Gone to Alabama I am gone to Mobile Leah

All along the bay ladies playin' with their children

Playin' with their children on a lazy summer day

Ships are in the harbor sittin' on the sunset

Sittin' on the sunset like a water color picture

Life was mighty good in the year of '47

It will be like Heaven in the year of '48

Oh de lo de lea I am gone to Alabama

Gone to Alabama I am gone to Mobile Leah

All along the bay ladies playin' with their children

Playin' with their children on a lazy summer day

Oh de lo de lea I am gone to Alabama

Gone to Alabama I am gone to Mobile Leah

All along the bay ladies playin' with their children

Playin' with their children on a lazy summer day

Oh ain’t it funny how we always said in times of leaving

Said in times of leaving we’d be coming back some day

How we now find in our time of grieving

What was really leaving was not us but Mobile Bay

Oh di lo de lea I am gone to Alabama

I am gone to Alabama I am gone to Mobile Leah

All along the bay ladies playin' with their children

Playin' with their children on a lazy summer day