The alabama song also known as moon of alabama moon over alabama and whisky bar is an english version of a song written by bertolt brecht and translated from german by his close collaborator elisabeth hauptmann in 1925 and set to music by kurt weill for the 1927 play little mahagonny.
Alabama moon the doors.
Show me the way to the next little.
Moonlight drive 7.
Five to one 5th song was damaged during recording 6.
Later covered by the doors.
It was reused for the 1930 opera rise and fall of the city of mahagonny and has been recorded by the doors and david bowie.
Oh moon of alabama we now must say goodbye we ve lost our good old mama and must have whisky oh you know why.
After the unexpected death of his survivalist father an eleven year old boy raised in the alabama wilderness must learn how to make a home in the modern world.
Oliver dies from a leg wound he refuses to have medically treated so moon is told to move away alone and start a new home in the alaskan wild lands.
Alabama song whiskey bar 3.
Well show me the way to the next whiskey bar oh don t ask why oh don t ask why show me the way to the next whiskey bar oh don t ask why oh don t ask why.
Moon blake is raised by his loving but government paranoid father oliver in a hidden cave in the alabama forests.
Back door man 4.