作词 : Cook, Rogers, Wright

Summer after graduation

Two kids stuck in Alabama

We'd be lovers any way we could

A ten buck wedding ceremony

A guy outside the courthouse told me

The weather down in South Beach

sure was good

So we hit the road like any dreamers would

.

She was mine for a time in Miami

Thought I had her in the palm of my hand

Like the sunrise the truth finally hit me

That her heart was halfway back to Birmingham

.

This ain't what she really wanted

So baby we went on back to Mama

Found a note when I got home last night

Left a fifty for the landlord

Nothin' here to stay around for

Ain't but one way left to make it right

So I'm headed for that Alabama line

.

She was mine for a time in Miami

But things don't always fw9ork out like you plan

Now I'm nearly out of gas and it's raining

But I'm almost halfway back to Birmingham

.

Like the sunrise the truth finally hit me

That her heart was halfway back to Birmingham