Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama Lyrics

Lynyrd Skynyrd Lyrics

"Sweet Home Alabama"

Big wheels keep on turning
Carrying me home to see my kin
Singing songs about the southland
I miss Alabamy once again
And I think it's a sin, yes

Well I heard Mr. Young sing about her
Well I heard old Neil put her down
Well I hope Neil Young will remember
A southern man don't need him around anyhow

Sweet home Alabama
Where the skies are so blue
Sweet Home Alabama
Lord, I'm coming home to you

In Birmingham they love the governor (Boo, boo, boo)
Now we all did what we could do
Now Watergate does not bother me
Does your conscience bother you?
Tell the truth

Sweet home Alabama
Where the skies are so blue
Sweet Home Alabama
Lord, I'm coming home to you
Here I come Alabama

Now Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers
And they've been known to pick a song or two (Yes they do)
Lord they get me off so much
They pick me up when I'm feeling blue
Now how about you?

Sweet home Alabama
Where the skies are so blue
Sweet Home Alabama
Lord, I'm coming home to you

Sweet home Alabama (Oh sweet home baby)
Where the skies are so blue (And the guv'nor's true)
Sweet Home Alabama (Lordy)
Lord, I'm coming home to you
Yea, yea

Montgomery's got the answer

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Writer(s): Ronnie Van Zant, Gary Robert Rossington, Edward C. King

This song was written as an answer to the songs "Southern Man" and "Alabama" by Neil Young, who wrote them about the racism and slavery in the South.

This track is kind of an anthem for the state of Alabama and it is often played during sport events there.

Neil Young later stated in his auto-biography, "Waging Heavy Peace", "My own song 'Alabama' richly deserved the shot Lynyrd Skynyrd gave me with their great record. I don't like my words when I listen to it. They are accusatory and condescending, not fully thought out, and too easy to misconstrue."

These lyrics contain a reference to the studio musicians at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, where Lynyrd Skynyrd recorded in 1970-1972.

Neil Young performed this at a memorial to the three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd which died in a plane crash in 1977.

album: "Second Helping" (1974)

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album: "Endangered Species" (1994)

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