Alabama - Song of the south

[sasquatch]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqhkFyuPjNc
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...

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

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...

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

Play it...

Sing it...

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

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...

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

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

[MissHoneychurch]

1. I thought you ment this Alabama song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYG1O6Okxvc&feature=related

[mitchum]

2. That's the one I prefer...

Bowie also did a pretty cool verson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNCEURBYEGo

[trof]

3. Memories of the Great Depression:

Not mine.
I'm a geezer, but not that old.
My mother-in-law's.

She was born in 1917 and grew up on a farm in southwest Louisiana.
Bell City, just southeast of Lake Charles.
Literally a wide spot in the road.

From a recording/transcription I made shortly before her death at age 92:
"We were poor, I guess. I mean we didn't have much cash money. But we had cows and hogs and chickens. And a big vegetable garden. And a kind of orchard that had figs and plums and pears and apples.
We were never hungry.

The chickens gave eggs, and mama made butter and cheese out of the cows' milk. Daddy would go cut cypress trees in the swamp to sell to the Bell Brothers' Lumber Company (that's where the name of the town came from) when he needed some cash for things we couldn't grow.

His main crop was rice, and we had that at almost every meal.
And that was a cash crop too.

We used the money to buy flour and salt and sugar and spices and such. Things we couldn't make or grow. Daddy did have a small cane patch and made molasses, but mama said she needed real sugar for some of her baking. Cakes and pies, mainly. She made all our bread.

Daddy also made some wine from the plums and pears and I think he made some whiskey out of some of the molasses, but we didn't know much about that.

Mama got a foot pedal sewing machine when I was 12 or 13 and made some of our clothes out of flour sacks or old worn out sheets. Some of the flour sacks were made out of pretty flowery prints and I liked the dresses mama made."

What did you do for entertainment?

"Well, we all worked pretty hard. There wasn't much time for that. We got a radio before the war, not long after we got electricity, and used to listen to the programs at night. And we played a lot of cards. Daddy taught us all to play rummy and we'd play that for hours in the evening if it wasn't planting or harvest time. He hated to lose. I think he cheated sometimes."

Sometimes I wonder if that's what it will be like for us in the not too distant future.
:shrug:

[newmajority]

4. Turn it up.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHsDa9_HSlA

Sweet Home Alabama
(Ed King - Ronnie VanZant - Gary Rossington)

Big wheels keep on turning
Carry me home to see my kin
Singing songs about the Southland
I miss Alabamy once again
And I think its a sin, yes

Well I heard mister Young sing about her
Well, I heard ole Neil put her down
Well, I hope Neil Young will remember
A Southern man don't need him around anyhow

Sweet home Alabama
Where the skies are so blue
Sweet Home Alabama
Lord, I'm coming home to you

In Birmingham they love the governor (boo boo boo)
Now we all did what we could do
Now Watergate does not bother me
Does your conscience bother you?
Tell the truth

Sweet home Alabama
Where the skies are so blue
Sweet Home Alabama
Lord, I'm coming home to you
Here I come Alabama

Now Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers
And they've been known to pick a song or two
Lord they get me off so much
They pick me up when I'm feeling blue
Now how about you?

Sweet home Alabama
Where the skies are so blue
Sweet Home Alabama
Lord, I'm coming home to you

Sweet home Alabama
Oh sweet home baby
Where the skies are so blue
And the governor's true
Sweet Home Alabama
Lordy
Lord, I'm coming home to you
Yea, yea Montgomery's got the answer

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All rights reserved. Used by permission.

[trof]

5. Song of the South: Disney

http://www.songofthesouthdvdremastered.com/

I never saw this as a racist movie.
Maybe I have southern blinders on.
Whatever.
:shrug: