Alabama Requiem from Alabama Requiem by Devadas

Left my home on a bus
Left a dishrag and a broom
Sold my father's gold Benrus watch at a pawn shop on 3rd Avenue
And nobody cried all night
The day I went away
Now it's just depots
And the sugar factory smokestacks all roll away

Lost in Alabama
And the sky seems so far away

Bring me back to dirt roads and open fields and warmer skies
It's raining back up North
All the highways have been washed away
Where the devil came to me through a dream

But the streets gave me no comfort
So what am I doing here
All the heroes in all the movies
They all lied to me

I've thrown this fortune to the floor
Left all of my money in the rain
I left the sky someplace far away

Lost in Alabama
Looking for my heart in my shoes
Lost in Alabama
Without much left to lose

• World
• composer
• kirtan
• songwriter
• New York