Andrew from adelaide australia the alabama song or whisky bar is actually a song written by brecht.
Alabama song the doors.
For the united states and wea in.
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 it was reused for the 1930 opera rise and fall of the city of mahagonny and has been recorded by.
But the doors did play it whilst performing in the london fog and it supposedly symbolised where they wanted to be at that present time which was the whisky a go go.
Alabama song whisky bar lyrics.
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.
Perception is a fortieth anniversary edition twelve disc box set by the doors.