Alabama Song was first a poem by Bertolt Brecht. The poem was then set to music and took on a strange life as an operatic number. A song about whiskey and immeasurable sin, Alabama Song, set in the decadence of Germany in the 1920s, and written from a female perspective, has been covered by the likes of a Mr. Jim Morrsison and countless others.
Lotte Lenya – “Alabama Song” (Click Here to Listen)
