Alabama Boy

Sweet Alabama boy, you filled my heart with joy

The first time you came running down the road

You claimed you loved me true, and I know I loved you too

As you ran barefoot with a heart that overflowed

Imagine the surprise in my starry lovestruck eyes

When you sealed the deal by handing me a toad

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I ran straight inside and for hours I just cried

I sobbed and my heart you did destroy

My pa said don't you worry and don't be in no hurry

He is just a boy from Alabam

Right now your heart is sore, but don't you cry no more

Someday you'll find an Alabama man

A few years past by when by now we both were ten

This time you came carrying a box

You gave it one more shot with that confidence you've got

I twisted up my golden sun-kissed locks

Imagine my displeasure when opened up the treasure

Baseball cards, bubble gum and river rocks

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When we were seventeen I was the county queen

And you were still a scrawny scruffy kid

So imagine my delight when I looked into the night

And you caught me with the next thing that you did

You lit up the night skies with a hundred jars of fireflies

My heart took flight when you opened up the lids

When you were twenty four, you volunteered for war

I cried and wrote you every day

The day you didn't write me back my whole world turned to black

I fell to my knees and I did pray

Just bring me back my joy, my Alabama boy

Just bring him home and keep him here to stay

Then you knocked on the door and I nearly hit the floor

I could not believe that you were right before my eyes

You knelt down on your wounded knee to say please marry me

With a diamond like a star plucked from the skies

Your eyes were filled with tears but after all these years

Sweet Alabama man, you won me after all your tries.