Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd

Artist: Lynyrd Skynyrd

Genre: Pop

Length: 4:41

Released: 1974

On his 1970 album After the Gold Rush, Neil Young wrote a song called “Southern Man,” which described the racism in the South as he saw it after visiting there. I saw cotton And I saw black Tall white mansions And little shacks Southern man When will you Pay them back? Lynyrd Skynyrd wrote “Sweet Home Alabama” as a response to “Southern Man” and as a way to show rock fans that the South was not the racist land of protracted slavery that Canadians at the time felt that it was. People often b...

Sweet Home Alabama lyrics

One, two, three
Turn it up
Big wheels keep on turning
Carry 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
(Ah-ah-ah, Alabama)
(Ah-ah-ah, Alabama)
(Ah-ah-ah, Alabama)
(Ah-ah-ah, 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 'bout 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 governor's true
Sweet home Alabama (Lordy)
Lord, I'm coming home to you (yeah, yeah)
Mont-Montgomery's got the answer

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