Sweet Home Alabama

artist
Lynyrd Skynyrd

decade
seventies

genre
Southern rock

significance

 * charted at number eight
 * certified platinum

album
Second Helping

controversy

 * The mention of "In Birmingham they love the gov'nor" and "now Watergate does not bother me" caused controversy as the governor of Alabama at the time was the pro-segregation George Wallace.

Trivia

 * The song was inspired by the Neil Young song Alabama. There is a song mentioning him and "A Southern man don't need him around anyhow", leading many to believe that Southern Man was the inspiration. However, the band claimed that this wa snot the case.