Written: Espina Street, Las Cruces NM, fall 1975
Knees had just started playing with the band at the Las Cruces Inn and liked the way Mark did the Eagles’ Lyin Eyes. So he wrote a song about his daughter, Naomi, that was in the same musical vein. It won a prize in one of the early American Song Festival contests.
There’s a girl in Alabama
She’s got golden hair just like her daddy used to
And pictures of his face
Somewhere inside her memory
But she doesn’t know him like she really should.
There’s a man in Colorado
He’s got a burnin dream to live a life worth livin
And to know that the girl
Doesn’t feel about her father
The way that he feels about his own.
Baby I’m on my own but I’m missing you
And you’re almost grown
I’m a thousand miles away
And I’ve been four years on the road
But baby I’m through with that
And I think it’s time that I made it back
To the girl who’s loved by the man.
And the girl in Alabama
Laughs and plays and hardly cries at all
But when she thinks about
The man she calls her daddy
He’s not there to brighten up her eyes.