Alabama 58 chords by The Dubliners
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Verse 1
(A minor) In Alabama (G major) (A minor) 1958
The cost of human (D major) life is very (A minor) low
A man that's black is (D major) trampled (A minor) down
Just (D major) like they (A minor) were a thousand (G major) years (A minor) ago
Verse 2
But these are more en (G major) lightened (A minor) days
No (C major) room for all these savage ways
(G major) Leave and let them (A minor) go
Now every man may walk his (D major) road in (A minor) peace
For (E major) all are (A minor) free!
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Verse 3
Two thousand years (G major) ago a million (A minor) men
Were gathered into (D major) royal Egypt's (A minor) land
Were bound together, (D major) forced to (A minor) build
(D major) Pyram (A minor) ids of stone in (G major) desert (A minor) sand
But these are more en (G major) lightened (A minor) days No
Verse 4
(C major)
room for all these savage ways
(G major) Leave and let them (A minor) go
Now every man may walk his (D major) road in (A minor) peace
For (E major) all are (A minor) free!
Mary's son walked (G major) through a land of (A minor) woe
Verse 5
Dreaming of the (D major) world as it could (A minor) be
But the good and lawful (D major) men of (A minor) Rome
(D major) Bound him (A minor) like a robber to a tree
Verse 6
But these are more en (G major) lightened (A minor) days
No (C major) room for all these savage ways
(G major) Leave and let them (A minor) go
Now every man may walk his (D major) road in (A minor) peace
For (E major) all are (A minor) free!
In Britain just a (G major) hundred
Verse 7
years (A minor) ago
The jails were full of (D major) good and
hungry (A minor) men
Diggers, fenians, (D major) many more
Fought and (A minor) died but (E major) rose to fight (A minor) again
But these are more en (G major) lightened (A minor) days No (C major) room
Verse 8
for all these savage ways
(G major) Leave and let them (A minor) go
Now every man may walk his (D major) road in (A minor) peace
For (E major) all are (A minor) free!
Verse 9
Last (A minor) year a negro (G major) stole a dollar bill (A minor)
The judge he said "We
(D major) mustn't be severe (A minor)
Instead of death we'll (D major) give him
(A minor) life im (D major) prisonment
(A minor) To show there's (E major) justice (A minor) here"
Verse 10
For these are more en (G major) lightened (A minor) days
No (C major) room for all these savage ways
(G major) Leave and let them (A minor) go
Now every man may walk his (D major) road in (A minor) peace
For (E major) all are (A minor) free!
And so throughout the (G major) ages you have
Verse 11
(A minor)
seen
How progress marches (D major) ever on its (A minor) way
No rack, no wheel, no (D major) Span
ish (A minor) boot
(D major) For Alabama's (A minor) prisoner (G major) s today
(A minor)
Verse 12
For these are more en (G major) lightened (A minor) days
No (C major) room for all these savage ways
(G major) Leave and let them (A minor) go
Now every man may walk his (D major) road in (A minor) peace
For (E major) all are (A minor) free!
In these more enlightened days No (C major) room
Verse 13
for all these savage ways
(G major) Leave and let them (A minor) go
Now every man should
walk his road in peace
Let (E major) man be free!
Alabama 58
The Dubliners
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