Box at Gee’s Bend

Sweet home Alabama that’s how it used to be…

Box at Gee’s Bend

My daddy used to whoop me 
I got tired of the pain.
I took off on an angry night
It was the wind and beaten rain.

A woman saw me on the road.
She said I liked like hell.
She took me in and fed me, 
until I was felling well.

Sweet home Alabama 
that’s how it used to be, 
so took to the open road 
looking for a place for me

I opened …