Lynyrd Skynyrd – Sweet Home Alabama lyrics

Lynyrd Skynyrd – Sweet Home Alabama lyrics

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 mister Young sing about her
Well, I heard ole 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
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 governor's true
Sweet Home Alabama
Lordy
Lord, I'm coming home to you
Yea, yea

Lyrics taken from /lyrics/l/lynyrd_skynyrd/sweet_home_alabama.html

Songwriters: Edward C. King, Gary Robert Rossington, Ronnie Van Zant

Sweet Home Alabama lyrics © Hipgnosis Songs Group, Universal Music Publishing Group

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Unregistered 2019-12-30 01:52:21

I can tell you this. I grew up in the muscle shoals area NE Alabama. The swampers were 3 guys who were studio musicians to help sit in and or chip away at some of LS ideas. The drummer was Roger Hawkins because he was my neighbor and I used to hang out with his son Dale ! Lol They contributed quite a bit to organize the sound and bring songs together behind the scenes !

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Unregistered 2019-05-22 15:46:58

“In Birmingham they love the government Boo well we all did what we could do.” That does not mean that the band were racist and supported the Jim Crow policies of the South. Contrary to popular belief (from some, anyway) being a Southerner does not make you a hateful person. How can I hate someone I grew up with went to school with, raised our kids together at the school we both went to. Have you heard the band ever make racist statements? Obviously you have never ridden a bus from one state through several to get home. That’s “Big wheels keep on turning carry me home to see my kin” Southern born, Southern bred! Yes the usa had a lengthy history of slavery. Do you know how much criticism Skynard got for that song from racist idiots? God made us all and if I hate someone how can I claim to love my wife, my children? No we are not perfect no more than any other part of the United States. It’s all too easy to see racism where none exists, and all too easy to ignore it when it is looking you in the face.

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Unregistered 2012-06-07 23:24:14

Much love for this song, but it's real meaning is poiniant. It's about racism in the 60s and 70s! The lines about neil young for example, neil wrote a song which slagged the southern states for being racist, especially alabama. An it is true that the southern states were the hub of racial segregation and violence. The other telling line, "in birmingham they love the governor" in the 60s there was a kkk planted bomb in a black church in birmingham, many died, including children, also the governor of the same state sent the national guard down to little rock central high school because of the famouse little rock 9 incident, where 9 coloured children where introduced into an all white school, the governor tried to stop the children from entering by sending the national guard in, in the end, the president was forced to take action. So yes, an all time classic song which few know the true meaning behind, think about the racial killings of inocent black americans for the colour of their skin next time you hear this song, sous it sound any different when you do? And for those of you wondering, I'm white.

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Unregistered 2022-05-13 13:18:59

Continue Birmingham the Capital and people hanging around on streets all day. I have heard that they also put up loud speakers on corners and played bad music but I’m not sure if that actually happened or not but he did for sure did away with any and all public shade…..

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Unregistered 2022-05-13 10:40:14

Birmingham was is State Capital Governor wanted it to look like it. He was tired of seeing people hanging out at bus stops and street corners… he took roofs off bus stops took down any public shade down town. If you were gonna hang out down town you were gonna do it in the Sun or Rain or trespass. The lyrics was a joke referring to this situation……

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Unregistered 2012-06-07 23:32:10

Oh and big wheels turning is about the freedom rides as well, the government passed a bill making it legal for blacks to sit anywhere on public transport, it banned segregation on transport after the montgomery bus boycott spanned from the famed rosa parks incident, the freedom riders were a group of black americans who wanted to test the new laws and sat in the white section of the buses from washington to alabama, although the riders were acting within the law, they were all killed in southern states after being captured on buses, many by the kkk (klu klux klan) but many also by the police, so yeh, it's about racism in the southern states in the 50s 60s and 70s.

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