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This song is performed by Lynyrd Skynyrd and appears on the album Second Helping (1974).
View the Gracenote version of these lyrics here.

This song also appears…

on the live album One More From The Road (1976)
on the box set Lynyrd Skynyrd (1991)
on the compilation album Endangered Species (1994)
on the soundtrack Forrest Gump: The Soundtrack (1994)
on the live album Lyve From Steel Town (1998)
on the compilation album Collectybles (2000)
on the live album Lynyrd Skynyrd Lyve: The Vicious Cycle Tour (2004)
on the compilation Classic Rock Gold (2005)
on the compilation Southern Rock Gold (2005)
on the compilation Dad's Jukebox (2008)
on the compilation Sounds Of The Seventies - 1974 (1989)

This song has been covered by…
Bonfire under the title "Sweet Home Alabama" Jewel under the title "Sweet Home Alabama" 鬼束ちひろ (Chihiro Onitsuka) under the title "Sweet Home Alabama"

This song is featured in the video games Guitar Hero On Tour: Decades, Guitar Hero World Tour, Guitar Hero World Tour Mobile, SingStar Rocks!, Rocksmith and Lips: Party Classics.

This song is available as a downloadable track for the video game Rock Band 3.

This song is featured in the movie Despicable Me.

Sweet Home Alabama
was the Song of the Day on

May 12, 2009

Sweet Home Alabama

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Sweet Home Alabama

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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 Alabama once again
And I think it's a sin, yes

Well, I heard Mr. Young sing about her
Well, I heard ol' 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 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, yeah yeah
Montgomery's got the answer

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CreditsEdit

Written by Ed King / Gary Rossington / Ronnie Van Zant

TriviaEdit

The second verse refers to Neil Young and his songs "Alabama" and "Southern Man".
The opening line "turn it up" isn't actually part of the song. Ronnie Van Zant couldn't hear the music in his earphones, and was asking Al Kooper and Rodney Mills to increase the volume.
Ironically, despite its title, none of the Lynyrd Skynyrd band members were actually from Alabama; most of the band was from Florida, and Ed King was from California.

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