Sweet Home Alabama

Sweet Home Alabama is one of Lynyrd Skynyrd's most popular songs. It charted at number eight. The song was written in response to the Neil Young song Alabama. It was rumored to have been done in response to his popular song Southern Man due to the lyric "A Southern man don't need him around anyhow", but the band denied this. The song is off of the phenomenal album Second Helping, which brought such songs as Don't Ask Me No Questions and The Ballad of Curtis Loew. The song is also a classic rock staple and is found on numerous compilations. It is the definitive Southern rock song.