Sweet Home Alabama – Lynyrd Skynyrd
"Sweet Home Alabama" is a song by the American Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, released on their second album, Second Helping (1974). It was written in response to Neil Young's 1970 song "Southern Man", which they felt blamed the entire South for American slavery.[4] Young is name-checked in the lyrics. It reached number 8 on the US chart in 1974, becoming the band's highest-charting single.[5]
| Artist | Lynyrd Skynyrd |
| Album | Single |
| Genre | Country |
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
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