Birmingham Uke tab by Randy Newman

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Got a wife, got a family; earn my livin' with my hands

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I'm a roller, in a steel mill, in down-town Birming-ham.

 

 

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 My daddy, was a barber; and a most un-sightly man.

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He was born in In Tusca-loosa,

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But he died right here in Birming-ham.

 

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 Birmingham, Birmingham;

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 The greatest city in Ala-bam'.

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 You can travel 'cross this en-tire land,

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But there ain't no place like Birming-ham.

 

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 Wife's named Mary, but she's called Marie,

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 We live in a three room house with a pepper tree.

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I work all day in the factory; that's al-right with me.

 

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 Got a big black dog, whose name is Dan,

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 Lives in my backyard, in Birmingham.

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 He's the meanest dog in Alabam'; get 'em Dan!

 

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 Birmingham, Birmingham,

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 The greatest city in Ala-bam'.

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 You can travel 'cross this en-tire land,

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But there ain't no place like Birming-ham.


 

[Coda]

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