Folks Say the Alabama Moon - By Dan'l MclLhenny

Folks say the Alabama Moon 

Loves to hug these Tuscaloosa trees 

You got to see it . . . to believe it 

A glow rests within the branches 

Before it lifts to bright the sky 

Any kind of Southern night 

Likes to dance beneath the spotlight 

As though this beam that’s streaming down 

Lights softly on our ground dressing up all Earthly things around 

Just long enough to leave a silver screen impression 

 Showing magic of the moment from some distant lunar sphere 

Owl voices asking – ‘who goes there!’ 

Dogs howl, but who knows why?   

Perhaps, they’re singing with the crickets 

 Or scared of fleeting firefly’s 

Folks say the Alabama Moon 

Loves to hug these Tuscaloosa trees 

You got to see it . . . to believe it 

A glow rests within the branches 

Before it lifts to bright the sky

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