Halfway Back To Birmingham Lyrics - Mark Chesnutt

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 work out like you plan 

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

But I'm almost halfway back to Birmingham