Once upon a time ago   Way up in the land of sleet and snow   How this fairy tale would go   I could not have known      I had searched around this world so mean   From Livingstone to Palestine   Trying to pursue my dream   Of love      It was then I met this girl so fine   She made me think so fast I left my thought behind   And I tried to pass for a sophisticated   Northern man      I said, "Why, yes my dear I know exactly what you mean   Because there?s not so much I haven?t done or seen   And may I say your eyes are the loveliest   Shade of jade"      I said, "Come on baby   Come on baby   Come on baby"      It was then I knew I had made my first mistake   She did not even start to wait   And as she turned around to walk away   This is what she had to say      She told me "Man, I come from way down South   I?ve got a picket fence with a picket house   And I don?t need no fast talking northern man   Like you around"      I said, "Well, come on baby   Come on baby   Come on baby"      Honey, I don?t know what you just heard   But Alabama is my favorite word   And Birmingham   Is a long way from here      Why, I could see the light began to shine   She turned back around her eyes met mine   And suddenly the whole world became   A better place      Even if it was only for an instant   Because it was then I knew I had made my   Second mistake      She told me, "Man that was a real good try   But Alabama?s not where I reside   I come from where the river is wide   And the crawfish hide"      I said, "Well come on baby   Come on baby   Come on baby"      Honey, I don?t know what you just heard   But Louisiana is my favorite word   And New Orleans   Is a long way from here      She just looked at me and shook her head   "Your lines are pretty sad" she said   "You are a lonely, weak, pathetic man   If this is doing the best you can"      It was then I knew I had made my third mistake   Yes, three strikes right across the plate   And as I hollered honey, "Please wait"   She was gone      I said, "Well come on baby   Come on baby   Come on baby"      Honey, I don?t know what you just heard   Bartender set ?em up are my favorite words   Because the love I need   Is a long way from here      Oh the love I need   Is a long way from here      Yes well, there I sat so all alone   Like a king who sits upon his throne   And whose kingdom may have just gone home   With another kingdom      So as you can imagine much to my surprise   When the door was flung back open wide   It was a miracle, she walked inside   And pulled her chair up next to me      And that?s when she knew   She had made her   First mistake      Well honey, I don?t know what you just heard   But come on baby are my favorite words   And where we?re going   Is a long way from here      And where we?re going to   Is a long way from here      So like I said before, I could not have known   How this fairy tale would finally go   Still the only certain thing for sure   Is what I do not know      So like the years and all the seasons pass   And like the sand runs through the hour glass   I just keep on running faster, chasing the happily   I am ever after      I just keep on running faster   Chasing the happily   I am ever after