Alabama   your beautiful sunlight   Your fields of cerecea potatoes and corn   Alabama   your crimson red clover   All mingled around the old place I was born.      Alabama   your hills and your valleys   Your creeks with laughter as onward they flow   Alabama   so sweet in the springtime   Sweet ferns and wild flowers and winter with snow.      Alabama   so sweet to my mem'ry   You shine like a light on a beautiful hill   Alabama   in days of my childhood   I labored and toiled at the old sorghum mill      Alabama   when red leaves are failing   I roam through your pastures with fences of rail   Alabama   when 'possums are crawling   And hound dogs are howling and wagging their tails.      Alabama   your beautiful highways   All curved through the mountains where love ones do wait   Alabama   your golden rod flower;   And the "Welcome home' sign hanging over the gate      Alabama   to me you are callin'   My footsteps are haltered no longer to stray   Alabama   you hold all I long for   You hold all I love so I'm coming today