Alabama Song

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A favorite and very strange Brecht/Weill song. We've never heard a version recorded by an Alabama artist, so we thought we should give it our own Alabama flavor. We also have a band tradition of sipping whiskey that has been sitting in a window sill, so whiskey is like our collective spirit, and this song has a humorous way of satirically celebrating earthly pleasures.

It was written by Brecht to satirize the absurd effects of capitalism, in which everything and everyone can be bought and sold….the lyrics point to Marx’s exchange principle in which everything is reduced to a simple monetary value….the words in the verses are exactly the same with only the subject changing from whiskey bar, to pretty boy, etc. …..there’s another verse we didn’t record that says “show us the way to the next little dollar”. It’s a never ending cycle of consumption, whether it be alcohol, sex, gambling or whatever….the classic Las Vegas vices!

Featuring Lauren on the Wurlitzer organ! Gary Wheat on clarinet! Joel on banjo! Jasper on marching bass drum and cymbals! Laura as a drunk bird!

lyrics

Oh, show us the way

To the next whisky bar

Oh, don't ask why

Oh, don't ask why


For we must find

The next whisky bar

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 goodbye

We've lost our good old mama

And must have whisky, oh, you know why

Oh, moon of Alabama

We now must say goodbye

We've lost our good old mama

And must have whisky, oh, you know why

Oh, show us the way

To the next pretty boy

Oh, don't ask why

Oh, don't ask why


For we must find

The next pretty boy

For if we don't find

The next pretty boy


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 goodbye

We've lost our good old mama

And must have whisky, oh, you know why

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from Wooden Shoe, released December 15, 2022
Original composed by Brecht + Weill

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