Sweet Home Alabama
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sweet-home-alabama-162-9268716
title:
Sweet Home Alabama
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"Sweet Home Alabama" is a song by American rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, released on the band's second album Second Helping (1974). It was written in response to Neil Young's 1970 song "Southern Man", which the band felt blamed the entire South for American slavery; Young is name-checked and dissed in the lyrics. It reached number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1974, becoming the band's highest-charting single. The song remains a staple in southern and classic rock, and is arguably the band
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1974 single by Lynyrd Skynyrd
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Home_Alabama
date created:
2003-05-17T14:21:01Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T19:29:03Z
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