Summer after graduation   Two kids stuck in Alabama   We'd be lovers any way we could   A ten buck wedding ceremony   A guy outside the courthouse told me   The weather down in South Beach    sure was good   So we hit the road like any dreamers would      She was mine for a time in Miami   Thought I had her in the palm of my hand   Like the sunrise the truth finally hit me   That her heart was halfway back to Birmingham      This ain't what she really wanted   So baby we went on back to Mama   Found a note when I got home last night    Left a fifty for the landlord   Nothin' here to stay around for   Ain't but one way left to make it right   So I'm headed for that Alabama line      She was mine for a time in Miami   But things don't always fw9ork out like you plan   Now I'm nearly out of gas and it's raining   But I'm almost halfway back to Birmingham      Like the sunrise the truth finally hit me   That her heart was halfway back to Birmingham^