Song: Alabama Song

Artist:	Lotte Lenya & Irene Eden
Music written by:	Kurt Weill
Lyrics written by:	Bertolt Brecht
First performance date:	July 18, 1927
Language:	English
Comments:	From the musical "Mahagonny Songspiel", which was a kind of try-out for the longer "Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny" in 1930. Sung by the characters "Jessie" and "Bessie", according to the "The Originals" by Arnold Rypens.

Cover hierarchy

Alabama Song by Lotte Lenya & Irene Eden (July 18, 1927)
- Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar) by The Doors (January 1967)
- Alabama Song by David Bowie (February 1980)
- Alabama Song by Marianne Faithfull (September 1996)
- Alabama Song by David Johansen (1997)
- Alabama Song by eX-Girl (May 9, 2000)
- Alabama Song by Norbert Detaeye (2001)
- Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar) by Mars Arizona (2002)
- Alabama Song by Dee Dee Bridgewater (2002)
- Alabama Song by Bruce Lash (November 30, 2004)

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