People ask me when I'm gonna move to Nashville I say I don't believe I ever will Got all the huntin' I can do in Talladega And all the fish that I can catch in Guntersville Have you ever climbed on top and seen a whole mountain? Watch the blue sky fadin' with the sun? You've seen the moonlight sound on the valley and the pine You'd understand where I'm comin' from I've got too much 'Bama in me I've got red dirt in my blood I'm a branch out of the Southland And I thank the Lord above I was born in the heart of Dixie-land Where the yellow hammer flies I've got too much 'Bama in me and I won't apologise (Yes Sir!) Now I've had myself a time in Tuscaloosa Had some litres out in Muscle Shoals Now I'd love to head on back to Sylacauga Maybe cap out where the Coosa River flows But I got friends that live in California They ask me why I never come to stay Well they all just can't understand how I can be a happy man When I'm livin' out two thousand miles away I've got too much 'Bama in me I've got red dirt in my blood I'm a branch out of the Southland And I thank the Lord above I was born in the heart of Dixie-land Where the yellow hammer flies I've got too much 'Bama in me and I won't apologise I've been all across this big ol' country And I've seen it all from sea to shinin' sea Now were livin' in the land of American honey And I have found the sweetest spot for me (Woo!) I've got too much 'Bama in me I've got red dirt in my blood I'm a branch out of the Southland And I thank the Lord above I was born in the heart of Dixie-land Where the yellow hammer flies I've got too much 'Bama in me and I won't apologise I was born in the heart of Dixie-land Where the yellow hammer flies I've got too much 'Bama in me and I won't apologise