What is the Doors song "Alabama Song" mean? How have you interpretted it?

Question

Sorry, I worded the question wrong.. but you get the idea.

Answer 1

I always thought he was talking about how alchohol helps take away all your problems. And the doors were not the original writers of this song, they re-did it. Bertlot Brecht originally wrote the song.

Answer 2

This is a cover of a German opera song written in 1929 by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht. It was used in a controversial 1930 German operetta called The Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahogany. The themes of materialism, despair, and illicit pleasures from the operetta this was taken from would be revisited often by The Doors.
The Doors got the idea for this from an album of German songs their keyboard player, Ray Manzarek, had.
A verse was omitted from the 1929 original. It started: "Show me the place to the next little dollar."
Took on a more literal meaning over the years as Jim Morrison's drug and alcohol problems became public knowledge.

Answer 3

I don't know but I love the doors and I will check for the answers later. Thanx for asking !