 Genius Lyrics
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Neil Young – Alabama
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A protest song in the vein of Young’s other hits, Ohio and especially Southern Man, this track discusses the changing political and social landscape of the 1960’s in America, in
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Neil Young – Southern Man
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Written towards the end of the era of the Amercan Civil Rights Movement, “Southern Man” is a scathing attack on the white racism that has persisted in the Southern United States
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Neil Young – Alabama (Live from Tuscaloosa)
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[Verse 1] / Oh, Alabama / The devil fools with the best laid plan / Swing low, Alabama / You got the spare change / You got to feel strange / And now the moment / Is all that it
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Lynyrd Skynyrd – Sweet Home Alabama
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On his 1970 album After the Gold Rush, Neil Young wrote a song called “Southern Man,” which described the racism in the South as he saw it after visiting there.
I saw cotton
And I
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Neil Young & Promise of the Real – Alabama (Live)
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[Verse 1] / Oh, Alabama / The devil fools with the best laid plan / Swing low, Alabama / You got the spare change / You got to feel strange / And now the moment / Is all that it
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Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Oh Susannah
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[Verse 1] / I had a dream the other night / Everything was still / I dreamed I saw Susannah / She was coming down the hill / [Chorus] / Oh, oh, oh, Susannah / Don't you cry for me
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Neil Young – Here We Are in the Years (Live from Tuscaloosa)
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[Part 1] / [Verse 1] / Now that the holidays have come / They can relax and watch the sun / Rise above all of the beautiful things we've done / [Verse 2] / Go to the country take
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Neil Young (Ft. The Stray Gators) – Out on the Weekend (Live from Tuscaloosa)
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[Verse 1] / I think I'll pack it in and buy a pick-up / And take it down to L.A / Find a place to call my own and try to fix up / Start a brand new day / The woman I'm thinking of
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Lynyrd Skynyrd – Dixie/Sweet Home Alabama
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Turn It Up / Big wheels keep on turning / Carry me home to see my kin / Singing songs about the Southland / I miss ol'Bamee once again / And I think its a sin, yes / Well I heard
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Karen Lee Batten – Sweet Home Alabama
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Big wheels keep on turning / Carrying 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 Mr. Young
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Neil Young (Ft. The Stray Gators) – Old Man (Live from Tuscaloosa)
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[Intro] / Old man, look at my life / I'm a lot like you were / Old man, look at my life / I'm a lot like you were / [Verse 1] / Old man, look at my life / Twenty-four and there's
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Bonfire – Sweet Home Alabama
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Big wheels keep on turnin' / Carry me home to see my kin / Singin' songs about the southland / I miss 'ole' 'bamy once again / And I think it's a sin / Well I heard Mr. Young sing
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Garth Brooks – Sweet Home Alabama
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[Intro] / Turn it up / [Verse 1] / Big wheels keep on turnin' / Carry me home to see my kin / Singin' songs about the Southland / I miss Alabamy once again and I think it's a sin
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Killdozer – Sweet Home Alabama
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Cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s signature anthem.
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Ashley Ray – Sweet Home Alabama
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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 its a sin, yes / Well I heard mister Young
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Leningrad Cowboys – Sweet Home Alabama
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Big wheels keep on turning / Carrying me home to see my kin / Singing songs about the southland / I miss ol' bama once again / And I think it's a sin, yes / Well I heard Mr. Young
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Drive-By Truckers – Ronnie and Neil
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“I wrote this song to tell of the misunderstood friendship between Ronnie Van Zant and Neil Young, who were widely believed to be bitter adversaries, but were in truth very good
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Drive-By Truckers – Ronnie and Neil (Live)
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Church blows up in Birmingham / Four little Back girls killed for no goddamn good reason / And all this hate and violence can't come to no good end / A stain on the good name / And
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Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Born in Ontario
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You might see me down in Alabama / Or Baton Rouge, down in Louisiana / I might make it up to Detroit City / Where people work hard and life is gritty / It don't really matter where
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Drive-By Truckers – The Three Great Alabama Icons
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“This one explains most of the first Act’s intentions and was painstakingly the most historically accurate and in some way most personal song on the album. It examines the duality
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Counting Crows – Sweet Home Alabama
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Big wheels keep on turning / Carry me home to my kin / Singing songs about the Southland / I miss my family once again and I think it's a sin / Well I heard Mr. Young sing about
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Jewel – Sweet Home Alabama
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Big wheels keep on turning / Carry me home to see my kin / Singing songs about the Southland / Miss my Alabama once again / And I think its a sin, yeah / I heard Mister Young sing
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The Outlaws (Southern Rock Band) – Sweet Home Alabama
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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
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Lynyrd Skynyrd – Sweet Home Alabama Interpolations
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See all of “Sweet Home Alabama” by Lynyrd Skynyrd’s interpolations
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National Lampoon – Southern California Brings Me Down (Neil Young Parody)
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I need someone to live with me / To keep my bed warm / And keep my shorts clean / I need a maid to give for free / And sew patches on my jeans / I dreamed I saw my cowgirls
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Neil Young (Ft. The Stray Gators) – Harvest (Live from Tuscaloosa)
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[Verse 1] / Did I see you down in a young girl's town / With your mother in so much pain? / I was almost there at the top of the stairs / With her screamin' in the rain / [Chorus
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Colm R. McGuinness – Sweet Home Alabama... But It's Irish
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[Verse 1] / Big wheels keep on turnin' / Carry me home to see my kin / Singin' songs about the southland / I miss Alabamy once again / And I think it's a sin / [Verse 2] / Well, I
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Neil Young – Lookout Joe (Live from Tuscaloosa)
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[Verse 1] / A hip drag queen and a side-walking street wheeler / Comin' down the avenue / They're all your friends, you'll come to love 'em / There's a load of 'em waiting for you
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Lt. Dan Band – Sweet home alabama
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Turn it up / 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
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Shawn Mendes – Sweet Home Alabama!
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[Verse 1] / 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 its a sin, yes / Well I heard
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Down By Law – Sweet Home Alabama
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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 / Well I heard Mister Young sing
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Laura Cox – Sweet Home Alabama
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Big wheels keep on turning / Carry me home to see my kin / Singing songs about the southland / I miss ole bamy once again and I think it's a sin / Well, I heard Mister Young sing
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Neil Young – New Mama (Live from Tuscaloosa)
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[Chorus] / New mama's got a sun in her eyes / No clouds are in my changing skies / Each morning when I wake up to rise / I'm livin' in a dreamland / [Verse] / Changing times
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