Sweet Home Alabama

artist
Lynyrd Skynyrd

album
Second Helping

genre
Southern rock

decade
seventies

significance
charted at number nine

trivia

 * Written in response to the Neil Young song Alabama. It was believed to have been also written in response to Southern Man, but this was later disproven.
 * The lyrics mention the governor of Alabama and Watergate, causing controversy over George Wallace and the scandal. Wallace was also a noted supporter of segregation.