G                          D7
  In eighteen-hundred and sixty-one, 
   D        G      D7 
  Roll, Alabama, roll! 
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  The ship's building it was begun, 
  C    G        D7     G
  Oh, roll, Alabama, roll! 
  
  At first she was called "The Two-Ninety-Two,"  
  In honour of the merchants of Liverpool  
  
  To fight the North [Captain] Semmes did employ  
  Ev'ry method to sink and destroy.  
  
  The Alabama sailed for two whole years,  
  Took sixty-five [Yankee] ships in her career.  
  
  It was early on a summer's day 
  Captain Semmes he docked in Cherbourg Bay 
  
  It was there she met the Yankee Kersearge 
  With Captain Winslow in her charge 
  
  Outside the Three mile limit they fought 
  'Tween Navy steel and British shot 
  
  'Till a shot from the forward pivot they say 
  Took the Alabama's gear away 
  
  The Kearsarge won; the Alabama so brave  
  Sank to the bottom of a watery grave.  
  
  On June nineteenth, eighteen sixty-four,  
  They sent the Alabama to the ocean floor.  
   
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  Then the British did the crewmen save
  Roll, Alabama, roll! 
  From sharing their vessel's watery grave
  Oh, roll, Alabama, roll!