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As this article demonstrates, the complicated saga of 'Sweet Home Alabama' is anything but sweet. The enormously popular song has an extraordinarily complex backstory involving a wide swath of groups which have laid claim to the song's message and symbols. The history of Lynyrd Skynyrd's 1974 song 'Sweet Home Alabama' has a long and tortured history. Such is the duality of the southern thing. Somewhere, Ronnie is still having a good laugh at Alabama officials and Neil Young bashers.

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(Or even make implied death threats (note caption).) Similarly, with the State of Alabama using the phrase 'Sweet Home Alabama' as an official slogan on license plates, one truly has to wonder what they were thinking the song was about. Every day, someone blogs or tweets the 'Neil Young putdown' without comprehending that they've actually praised him. Thus, for those who think it's so clever to put down Neil Young using the phrase 'Hope Neil Young will remember, a southern man don't need him around anyhow' little do they realize that they have the meaning backwards. Without Young's songs that were so critical of the South's segregationist and racist attitudes for inspiration, it is doubtful that the band would have produced a song with such a long lasting duration that continues to sell well 30 years after its release.Д«ut the ultimate irony of 'Sweet Home Alabama' is that for so many, the song's implied put down of Neil Young was NOT meant as criticism but as support of Young's anti-racism. Thanks to Neil Young, Lynyrd Skynyrd was inspired to write the song 'Sweet Home Alabama'. Please comment and add your thoughts on Lynyrd Skynyrd's 'Sweet Home Alabama'ДЄ southern man don't need him around anyhow' Lynyrd Skynyrd: Neil Young's Nemesis or Ally?