Songs:Andalusia (135390)
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It’s a town in Alabama, and my grandfather used to live there. And Hank Williams used to live there. And those two sounded just exactly alike when they talked. They didn’t sing alike. My grandfather sang like Bing Crosby.
Lyrics
(Peter Cooper) Well Known Music/SESAC/admin. by BUG Music He was just a young man Felt better with a bottle in his hand Drank it down like it was gonna cure him It didn’t cure him, it was poison to him And Andalusia was just another stop on the circuit Greenville, Brewton, Georgiana When the world was the middle of Alabama Andalusia Andalusia Looking for a specter, looking for the fabric Walking down a hot street, straining for a melody That sounds something like kin to me In Andalusia My grandmama was from Bay Minette Grandaddy hadn’t met her yet When he saw Hank Williams singing cowboy songs From a flat-bed stage on the courthouse lawn And it was nothing, nothing to speak of then But later on the old boy made it big And my granddaddy filled a Cadillac talk Three years later when the drifter came through Andalusia He was walking through Andalusia Looking for a barroom fight or some motel sin Before he got back on the road again Hell, he was just stopping in To Andalusia Now they’ve paved over red dirt And there’s smooth asphalt where the footsteps were And it looks a lot like every place I’ve been No one I know lives here They haven’t in a lot of years And there ain’t been no more like them Hank Williams died at 29 Granddaddy moved to Caroline He sold spare parts and old cars And then he sold auto, home and life A couple of my heroes right there They had the same flat drawn and the same hard stare Look around here you won’t find ‘em nowhere You’ll go home without the prize Home from Andalusia I’m walking through Andalusia Looking for a specter, looking for the fabric Walking down a hot street, straining for a melody That sounds something like kin to me In Andalusia There ain’t no kin to me In Andalusia
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 | Country folk 700 items |
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