Garth Brooks - Alabama Clay Chords

[Intro]
D A Bm D   G Dsus4 Dsus2 D
 
[Verse 1]
      D       A                  Bm     D
 First time he saw the ground get busted
       G                             D   A
 He was ten and it was nineteen fifty-two
    D                      A         Bm       D
 His daddy worked hard from sun up to sun down
        G                                   D     A
 and the going got tuff behind them old grey mules
    D            A          Bm    D
 The farm grew to be a money maker
        G                                 D   A
 and the house he lived in grew up room by room
    D                   A                 Bm      D
 The boy worked hard but soon got tired of farming
      G/B              A                         D    Dsus2 D
 So he slipped away one night beneath the harvest moon.
 
[Chorus 1]
             G              D    Dsus2 D
 His neck was red as Alabama clay
               G    D/F#           A
 but the cities ca---ll pulled him away
                   G                    D
 He's got a factory job and runs a big machine
                  A                     D      A Bm D G Dsus4 Dsus2
 He don't miss the farm or the fields of green.
 
[Verse 2]
        D             A              Bm      D
 Now the cities just a prison without fences.
    G                              D     A
 His job is just a routine he can't stand
       D                  A         Bm     D
 and at night he dreams of wide open spaces
      G                                D     A
 fresh dirt beneath his toes and on his hands.
         D             A             Bm     D
 Then one day a picture came inside a letter
     G                             D     A
 of a young girl with a baby in her arms.
        D                     A                  Bm    D
 And the words she wrote would change his life forever.
      G/B               A               D
 So he went to raise his family on their farm.
 
[Chorus 2]
            G              D    Dsus2 D
 His neck is red as Alabama Clay
               G   D/F#            A
 Now he's going ho--me this time to stay
                    G                  D
 Where the roots run deep on the family tree
                A                           D
 and the tractor rolls through the fields of green.
 
            G             D     Dsus2 D
 His neck is red as Alabama Clay
               G   D/F#            A
 Now he's going ho--me this time to stay
                    G                  D
 Where the roots run deep on the family tree
                A                           D
 and the tractor rolls through the fields of green.
 
[Outro]
            G                         D
 His neck is red......as Alabama clay.