Sweet Home Alabama

artist
Lynyrd Skynyrd

album
Second Helping

genre
Southern rock

decade
seventies

significance
charted at number eight

trivia

 * Inspired by Neil Young's song Alabama. It was rumored to have been inspired by Southern Man, but this was proven false. The song even mentions "A Southern man don't need [Neil Young] around anyhow]".
 * There are some lines about the governor of Alabama and Watergate which caused controversy due to George Wallace, then-Governor of Alabama, being pro-segregation and having connections to the KKK among other things.