Alabama Blues

Alabama Blues Words & Music by Elly Wininger

I wish I'd told my momma
Before I began to show.
I wish I'd had the gumption
To just pack a bag and go.
Now I'm stuck here in this stinkin' state
Where a woman cannot choose.
Lord I got those Alabama Blues.

My Uncle Willy told me,
Said I shouldn't even try
To tell the things that he done to me.
He'd say it was a lie.
And I'd look like a bad girl
With nothin' left to lose.
Stuck here with these Alabama Blues.

I thought we had this figured out.
I thought there was a law
Protecting girls who'd been raped
By a stranger or their pa.
But now it seems we're goin' back-
I heard it on the news.
Stuck here with these Alabama Blues.
Those stinkin' backward Alabama Blues.