Alabama Album

There are people in this country
Who work hard every day
Not for fame or fortune do they strive
But the fruits of their labor
Are worth more than their pay
And it's time a few of them were recognized.

Hello Detroit auto workers,
Let me thank you for your time
You work a forty hour week for a livin',
Just to send it on down the line
Hello Pittsburgh steel mill workers,
Let me thank you for your time
You work a forty hour week for a livin',
Just to send it on down the line.

This is for the one who swings the hammer,
Driving home the nail
Or the one behind the counter,
Ringing up the sale
Or the one who fights the fires,
The one who brings the mail
For everyone who works behind the scenes.

You can see them every morning
In the factories and the fields
In the city streets and the quiet country towns
Working together like spokes inside a wheel
They keep this country turning around.

Hello Kansas wheat field farmer,
Let me thank you for your time
You work a forty hour week for a livin',
Just to send it on down the line
Hello West Virginia coal miner,
Let me thank you for your time
You work a forty hour week for a livin',
Just to send it on down the line.

This is for the one who drives the big rig,
Up and down the road
Or the one out in the warehouse,
Bringing in the load
Or the waitress, the mechanic,
The policeman on patrol
For everyone who works behind the scenes.

With a spirit you can't replace with no machine
Hello America, let me thank you for your time...

I thought it was forever
I thought it would last
Gotta try to make it
A page of my past
You didn't even say goodbye
When you slammed that door

Now I'm lyin' here alone
In what once was our bed
Trying to forget
All the cruel words you said
All the radio was playing
What once was our favorite song

Oh enough is enough I won't take anymore
I'm picking myself up off the floor

Cause you can't keep a good man down
You can't keep a good man down
Oh no you can't keep a good man down
Sugar, you can't keep a good man down

Gonna dress up in my finest
Clothes that I own
And take it to the streets
I won't be lonely for long
Gonna put on my best moves
On every single woman I see

Now you thought you could break me
Add me to your list
Notch me on your gun
Let me tell you this
I've got news for you baby
I don't break that easily

Cause you can't keep a good man down
You can't keep a good man down
Oh no you can't keep a good man down
Sugar, you can't keep a good man down

I'll be out there on the scene
Hangin' with my friends
This world's gonna see
Me smilin' again
I'm taking some time
To erase you from my memory

Don't write any letters
Don't call me on the phone
Don't knock on my door
Cause to you I'm not at home
I know there's a woman out there
For a man like me

Cause you can't keep a good man down
You can't keep a good man down
Oh no you can't keep a good man down
Sugar, you can't keep a good man down

Oh enough is enough I won't take anymore
I'm picking myself up off the floor

Cause you can't keep a good man down
Baby, you can't keep a good man down
Honey, you can't keep a good man down
Sugar, you can't keep a good man down

As I lay by your side and hold you tonight,
I want you to understand,
This love that I feel is so right and so real,
And I realize how lucky I am.
And should you ever wonder if my love is true,
There's something that I wanna make clear to you.

There's no way I could make it without you,
There's no way that I'd even try,
If I had to survive, without you in my life,
I know I wouldn't last a day,
Oh baby, there's no way.

It means so much to me, whenever I see,
That "wanting me look" in your eyes,
I don't know how I could do without,
Holding you close every night.
I've waited so long just to have you to hold,
And now that I've got you, I'll never let go.

There's no way I could make it without you,
There's no way that I'd even try,
If I had to survive, without you in my life,
I know I wouldn't last a day,
Oh baby, there's no way.

I never knew until you, what I was missing,
Now you say forever, and I find my heart is listening.
Yes I'm listening.

There's no way I could make it without you,
There's no way that I'd even try,
If I had to survive, without you in my life,
I know I wouldn't last a day,
Oh baby, there's no way.

Baby, there's just no way.

She sits and stares out the window at the water
Every night down the cafe
All alone she sips her pina colada
Talking to herself dreaming away
The story is that a dark haired stranger
Stole her heart many years ago
He promised her he'd come back and take her
Around the world bring her hills of gold

Down on longboat key
Where the island sand meet in the Gulf Stream Bridge
Down on longboat key
She spends her life in a dream
On longboat key
Down on longboat key
Down on longboat key

Each afternoon as the snugboat comes in
She runs to meet them down the pier
She sees the fisherman's nets and the sunset
But she don't see him her eyes fill with tears
She stands there looking at the crystal blue water
And in the Coral she imagine pearls
She makes believe he brought them all the way from China
The water swirls
The blue green water swirls

Down on longboat key
Where the island sand meets the Gulf Stream breeze
Down on longboat key
She spends her life in a dream
On longboat key
Down on longboat key
Down on longboat key

Young sailors makes a play to take her home
She says,"No,I'm already taken'
Oh,they just laugh when she mentions his name
She keeps on waiting,waiting,waiting,waiting

Down on longboat key
Where the island sand meets the Gulf Stream breeze
Down on longboat key
She spends her life in a dream
On longboat key
Down on longboat key
Down on longboat key

There's a ring around the Louisiana moon
And the star's are shinning bright for me and you
Wind is blowing memories cross my mind
Reminding me of all those hot nites.

Chorus:
Louisiana moon shine down on me tonight
Lousiana moon please help us keep it right
You were there when we started
and you'll be there until the end
Louisiana moon you will always be my closest friend.

You put a passion in the nite with your soft glow
Like you've always done those country roads
I send a message from your life here to the sea
And when it glows against her skin she'll think of me.

Chorus:
Louisiana moon shine down on me tonight
Lousiana moon please help us keep it right
You were there when we started
And you'll be there until the end
Louisiana moon you will always be my closest friend.

Loisiana moon you will always be my closest frined
Shine down on me tonight
Louisana moon please help us keep it right...

Sometimes all you need is someone to hold you
Sometimes that's all you're looking for
But I'd like to take the time to get to know you
'Cause I don't want this time to be like all the times before

I want to know you before I make love to you
I want to show you all of my heart
And when I look into those eyes
I want to feel the love inside, you
I want to know you before we make love

I've learned from all those lonely nights with strangers
It takes time for real love to be found
I feel the invitation of your body
But I'd like to look inside your soul before I lay you down

I want to know you before I make love to you
I want to show you all of my heart
And when I look into those eyes
I want to feel the love inside, you
I want to know you before we make love

If we take it slow together, together
We might make it last forever

I want to know you before I make love to you
I want to show you all of my heart
And when I look into those eyes
I want to feel the love inside, you
I want to know you before we make love

I want to know you before we make,
Before we make, love...

Once I was cold
But now I know
How a fireworks
'Cause I felt the flame
It drove me insane
Fireworks

There was this lady
Soft as as a gentle glow
She told me everything
That she knows
About fireworks
She's got fireworks

Now on the fourth of July
By the riverside
There was fireworks
And by her dark green eyes
I was hynotised
By her fireworks

She lit a fuse in the
Dark of the night
Then I got off
Like dynamite
On her fireworks
She's got fireworks

A million colors shooting
Across the sky
Moment any man
Could fantasize
Ahw.. Fireworks
Got fireworks .. Ahw..

--- Instrumental ---

Now I'm meeting her here
But she's dis-appeared
And took her fireworks
She burning up someone
With her fever and fun
And her fireworks

Some lucky man is gonna
Need her so
And when he does
I know he's gonna know
Her fireworks
She's got fireworks
Fireworks

A candle burning at both ends
Fireworks

Hotbed of coal... Ahhh..
Fireworks
Fireworks

Fire, fire
Fire, fire
Fireworks

Fireworks
Hot bed of coal... Ahhh..

Fireworks
Fireworks

Fire, fire
Oh, Oh
Fireworks

Fireworks
Hot bed of coal...

The way she's walkin',
Starts talkin' among the boys hangin' out
They want to take her out
But she won't have a thing to do with nobody but me.

The way she's looking got those hips cooking
Got their heads turning, got their hearts burning
But she won't have a thing to do with nobody but me
Now, she won't have a thing to do
With nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody but me,

She's my woman, she's my lover
Ain't nobody gonna get no part of her
They can look but they can't touch
The woman I lay down at night and love.

(Instrumental)

Ain't no danger of a stranger ever getting closer
Than these arms that hold her
But she won't have a thing to do with nobody but me.

Now, she won't have a thing to do
With nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody but me.
Now, She won't have a thing to do
With nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody but me.

Nobody but me, nobody but me, no, no, no, no, no, no, oooo, ooo, ooo...

You're still the lady of my dreams
You're still my high school beauty queen
To me it's still magic when we touch
And I have never loved you so much

As right now
As right now

You're still my actress on the screen
Still the leading lady in my scenes
To me it's still magic when we touch
And I've still never loved someone so much

As right now
As right now

As right now

You're still the one I'm with when I'm alone
And you're still the lover calling on my phone
To me it's still magic when we touch
And I will never love someone so much

As right now
As right now
As right now
As right now
As right now
As right now
As right now

Oh, I love those Colorado Rockies
And that big starry Montana sky
And the lights of San Francisco
On a California night
Enjoyed those ballgames in Chicago
On those windy afternoons
It's a big beautiful country
But I'm never home too soon
If it ain't Dixie, it won't do

If it ain't Dixie
it don't feel quite like home
My southern blood runs deep and true
I've had good times
North of the line
I've got a lot of good friends too
But if it ain't Dixie, it won't do
It won't do

When the leaves turn in New England
I love the chill that's in the air
I've walked the New York City sidewalks
Had a big time in Times Square
But now my wheels are rollin' southward
And heaven's comin' into view
Home-sweet-home is Alabama
That's what I look forward too

If it ain't Dixie
it don't feel quite like home
My southern blood runs deep and true
I've had good times
North of the line
I've got a lot of good friends too
If it ain't Dixie, it won't do
It won't do

If it ain't Dixie
Oh no, Oh no-whoah

Now my wheels are rollin' southward
And heaven's comin' into view
Home-sweet-home is Alabama
That's what I look forward to

Y'all come to Dixie...