Intro
|E |A |E |A |E |A
|E |AVerse 1E
Well, I didn't know him best
A
He'd say we were friends
BE
We both rode the highways on the song
EA
So I'm writing this one here in memory of him
BE
'Cause the King of Alabama has gone home
Verse 2E
He was a man among men, the old-school kind
A
Had a great big heart, a laid-back mind
B
Let you hold his guitar if you broke his string
AB
If you thought he looked country, outta heard him sing
Verse 3E
From Alabama 'cross the Rio Grande
A
He beat the blacktop down with a five-piece band
B
Not because he loved it - he did that too -
AB
But he did it man 'cause that's what he was born to do
Chorus 1C#mG#m
Some people calculate moves
AE
He never had a thing to prove
C#mG#mAE
He just let the wind take him where it may
F#m
It's a damn shame the way things go
G#m
It's too bad we have to lose the good folks
AG#mF#mBE |A
But the King of Alabama has gone home
|E |AVerse 4EA
"Nothin' good ever happens after midnight," so the story goes
BAB
You can't trust nobody, it don't matter how close
EA
It was a friend that took him from his family
B
I keep his chain in my pocket, his son in my prayers
AB
Every stage I'm on, I can feel him there
Chorus 1C#mG#m
Some people calculate moves
AE
He never had a thing to prove
C#mG#mAE
He just let the wind take him where it may
F#m
It's a damn shame the way things go
G#m
It's too bad we have to lose the good folks
AF#mB
But the King of Alabama has gone home
[Solo]
|C#m |G#m |AG#mF#m |AG#mF#m
|ABF#m |BChorus 2C#mG#m
Some people calculate moves
AE
He never had a thing to prove
C#mG#mAE
He just let the wind take him where it may
C#mG#m
Honky tonks would trip
AE
Get a guitar and beg him to pick
C#G#mAE
Let the old tunes posses you and play
F#m
It's a damn shame the way things go
G#m
It's too bad we have to lose the good folks
AG#mF#m
But the King of Alabama
AG#mF#m
The King of Alabama
AG#mF#mBEBA
The King of Alabama has gone home
This arrangement for the song is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. You may only use this for private study, scholarship, or research.