Sweet Home Alabama fue escrita como respuesta a Southern Man de Neil Young, que criticaba las políticas raciales del sur de EE. UU. Lynyrd Skynyrd usó la canción para expresar el orgullo sureño, aunque también incluyeron críticas sociales. Fue grabada en 1973 y refleja las tensiones culturales y políticas de la época.
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Introducción:
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Big wheels keep on turning
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Carry me home to see my kin
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Singing songs about the south land
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I miss 'ole' 'bamy once again and I think it's a sin
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Well I heard Mr. Young sing about her
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Well I heard old Neil put her down
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Well I hope Neil Young will remember
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A southern man don’t need him around, anyhow
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Sweet home Alabama, where the skies are so blue
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Sweet home Alabama, Lord I’m coming home to you
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In Birmingham they love the Gov'nor, boo-hoo-hoo (
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Now we all did what we could do
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Now watergate does not bother me
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Does you conscience bother you (tell the truth!)
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Sweet home Alabama, where the skies are so blue
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Sweet home Alabama, Lord I’m coming home to you (Here I come, Alabama)
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Now Muscle Shoals has got the swampers
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And they've been known to pick a song or two (yes we do)
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Lord they get me off so much
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They pick me up when I'm feeling blue, now how 'bout you?
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Sweet home Alabama, where the skies are so blue
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Sweet home Alabama, Lord I’m coming home to you
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Sweet home Alabama (Oh, sweet home baby)
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Where the skies are so blue (And the governor's true)