Sweet Home Alabama
One, two, three
Turn it up
Big wheels keep on turnin'
Carry me home to see my kin
Singin' songs about the south-land
I miss Alabamy once again and I think it's a sin, yes
Well I heard Mister 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 comin' home to you
In Birmingham they love the governor (boo-hoo-hoo)
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 (oh yeah)
Lord I'm comin' 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 (yes they do)
Lord they get me off so much
They pick me up when I'm feelin' blue
Now how about you?
Sweet home Alabama
Where the skies are so blue
Sweet home Alabama
Lord I'm comin' home to you
Sweet home Alabama (oh, sweet home)
Where the skies are so blue
And the governor's true
Sweet home Alabama (lordy)
Lord I'm comin' home to you, yeah, yeah
Montgomery's got the answer
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Edward King / Gary Rossington / Ronnie Zant
Sweet Home Alabama lyrics © Universal Music Corp., Emi Full Keel Music, Emi Longitude Music, Songs Of Universal Inc.
C.: Well d.c., it looks like Ralph may be headed for Alabama! He sent me this text this morning. That is the only reason I can think of that he would send me the lyrics to one of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s two most well-known songs.
d.: OR…Ralph was kitten napped by a quartet of septuagenarians. These four seventy-plus year-olds may be traveling the U.S. pretending to be Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young on a redemption tour. They are probably doing this, even though they are, in reality, a garage cover band. They may be forcing Ralph to sing backup vocals and act as their roadie!
C.: Why would you think that? Because Neil Young’s song “Southern Man” is basically an insult to anyone who is now or has ever lived south of the Mason-Dixon Line? And because the song implies that all southerners are ignorant, illiterate, backwoods conservative cotton farmers that are secretly members of the Klu Klux Klan?,
AND Eddie King, Gary Rossington, and Ronnie Van Zandt, the lead vocalist and main songwriter for your favorite band, wrote this song in protest of Neil Young's anthem?
d.: I knew that, Cal.E. It’s SO funny that you would think that I didn’t know that! (Did I know that Lynyrd Skynyrd’s song “Sweet Home Alabama’’ was an answer to Neil Young’s insult to southerners entitled “Southern Man.” PLEASE!) I’M the one who told YOU that Cal.E.!
C.: O—KAY! d.c., you wouldn’t have, by chance, been sampling the beet juice I left at The Kennel for my kittens so that they could perform their jobs better, would you?
d.: WELL….maybe. But I really, REALLY needed SOMETHING to help me stay awake. I had just finished a thirteen-hour shift and a song kept running through my head. You know how bad my memory is! I wanted to finish writing the song BEFORE I forgot the lyrics!
Would you like to hear my new song? Here it goes…
I gave my love a cherry
I ya phone
I bought it ‘cause she’s scary
Her name is Sloan…or Roberta, or Eugenia, or Penelope, or Georgiana, or Delores, or Catherine, or Luanna,, or Roxanna, …. I’m not sure.
That's as far as I have gotten (it seemed so much longer when I wrote it, though!)
C.: ….That’s all the time we have for today, folks. Join us tomorrow, after d.c. sleeps off the effects of the ....”beet juice” he “borrowed’ from my kittens.
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