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Bertolt Brecht - Alabama Song

Show me the way to the next whisky bar
Oh, don't ask why, oh, don't ask why
Show me the way to the next whisky bar
Oh, don't ask why, oh, don't ask why
For if we don't find the next whisky bar
I tell you we must die
I tell you we must die
I tell you
I tell you
I tell you we must die

Oh, moon of Alabama
We now must say say good-bye
We've lost our good old mamma
And must have whisky
Oh, you know why.

Show me the way to the next pretty girl
Oh, don't ask why, oh, don't ask why
Show me the way to the next pretty girl
Oh don't ask why, oh, don't ask why
For if we don't find the next pretty girl
I tell you we must die
I tell you we must die
I tell you
I tell you
I tell you we must die

Oh, moon of Alabama
We now must say good-bye
We've lost our good old mamma
And must have a girl
Oh, you know why.

Show me the way to the next little dollar
Oh, don't ask why, oh, don't ask why
Show me the way to the next little dollar
Oh, don't ask why, oh, don't ask why
For if we don't find the next little dollar
I tell you we must die
I tell you we must die
I tell you
I tell you
I tell you we must die

Oh, moon of Alabama
We now must say good-bye
We've lost our good old mamma
And must have dollars
Oh, you know why.

Added: on May 27th, 2005 at 10:31 AM | Viewed: 2454 times | Comments (1)


Alabama Song - Comments and Information

Poet: Bertolt Brecht
Poem: Alabama Song

Poem of the Day on:
May 28 2009

Comment 1 of 1, added on May 27th, 2005 at 10:31 AM.

Hello,
I would like to inform you that there is mistake in this poem. In the 2. stanza there is written: pretty girl, but it must be "pretty boy", because Jenny (a woman) sings it in the opere "...mahagony". Jim Morrison sang with "The Doors" "little girl", maybe you mixed it.

Many greatings from capitalistic Germany!

Tobias Müller

Tobias Mueller from Germany

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