My grandmother met my grandfather in Auburn, Alabama
He was majoring in agriculture, she played piano
She was a beauty queen, he was a hardworking Navy man
71 years later, still holding hands

I can choose where I'm going. I can’t change the place I'm from
If I could, I wouldn't want to when it’s all been said and done
I spent many years running over God's green world
And the truth is, I still am a Alabama girl

We grew up on a county road where the mailman never came
Spent our summers at the water hole, even the WalMart was far away
Where all the kids get married, work at the factory, or go to war
I had a need to get away clean. Never will, I'm sure

'Cause I can choose where I'm going. I can't change the place I'm from
If I could, I wouldn't want to when it’s all been said and done
I spent many years running over God’s green world
And the truth is, I still am a Alabama girl

Oh the skin around these bones and this secondhand name
And a winding mountain road is something I can claim

'Cause I can choose where I’m going. I can't change the place I'm from
If I could, I wouldn't want to when it’s all been said and done
I spent many years running over God's green world
And the truth is, I still am a Alabama girl