Drive-By Truckers - Birmingham lyrics

Economics shut the furnace down
Bull Connor hosing children down
George Wallace stared them Yankee's down
In Birmingham

Take a left on the interstate
In the middle of this sultry state
I can't wait to see your face in Birmingham

"I don't think it was worth it"
The last thing Stanley said to me
Twenty four years then a bullet
In the chest and i still see him in my sleep
Fifteen dollars in the purse
He could not save
Her family didn't buy a stone
To mark his grave "Give me a call
If you need a place to stay in Birmingham"
Birmingham
Most of my family came from Birmingham
I can feel their presence on the street


Vulcan Park has seen it's
Share of troubled times
But the city won't admit defeat
Magic City's magic getting stronger
Dynamite Hill ain't on fire any longer
No man should ever have to feel
He don't belong in Birmingham birmingham