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^