Sweet Home Alabama é uma resposta à música Southern Man de Neil Young, que criticava o sul dos EUA por suas políticas raciais. Lynyrd Skynyrd usou a música para expressar o orgulho sulista, apesar de também incluir críticas sociais. Foi gravada em 1973 e reflete tensões culturais e políticas da época.
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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, 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)