Pride Of Alabama - Yonder Mountain String Band

Dixie was the pride of Alabama

I met her on a lonesome midnight train

Rollin' slowly out of Union Station

She was staring out the window at the rain

Well Dixie was from sunny Alabama

Those old steel rails would roll to Birmingham

Mobile, her final destination

I looked down at the ticket in her hand

Southbound train it ain’t you I know that done her wrong

Say again that you seen it coming all along

All that she knew those sweet memories it’s true

Dixie darling caught her southbound train

Dixie asked if I’d been to Alabama

Her voice was thick like some old southern night

And maybe for the sake of conversation

I said back in '88 or '89 (2)

She said her daddy’s fields were full of cotton

By the river that she swam in as a child

Lord she loved those sweet magnolia blossoms

And that good ol' Honeysuckle growing wild

Dixie told me how she got to Denver

A southern gal who coudn’t stand the cold

She fell in love and left Mobile forsaken

Mistaken for a dusty pot of gold

Dixie let the pieces fall together

And painted up this picture in my mind

Mobile, Alabama was a-callin' her back

And the Pride of Alabama was on time