Sweet Home Alabama Lynyrd Skynyrd Flag

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Sweet home alabama lynyrd skynyrd flag. The song was written in reply to southern man and alabama by neil young. Flag and during sweet home alabama that state s colors. Young is named in the song s lyrics. To the last original member of lynyrd skynyrd abandoning the confederate flag signified the band cutting its ties to racism the ku klux klan and skinheads.

Lynyrd skynyrd sweet home alabama recorded live. To some of the band s fans it meant. Lynyrd skynyrd sweet home alabama. In a previous interview with cnn lynyrd skynyrd had said they were wary of the flag s association with hate groups.

I ve always liked lynyrd skynyrd s music particularly sweet home alabama. Since then it s become a kind of anthem for the state and the fight song for for the university of alabama s crimson tide. Sweet home alabama is a song by southern rock band lynyrd skynyrd that first appeared in 1974 on their second album second helping. Now for me the lyrics behind sweet home alabama had zero meaning at the time.

Sweet home alabama has after almost four decades decided that the confederate flag will no longer be used as a backdrop at its concerts because its association has been hijacked by racist groups. On their farewell tour skynyrd eschews any overt display of the confederate flag choosing instead to perform in front of the u s. It was 1977 i was headed to skyline high school in the oakland hills where most of my friends from bret harte junior high school were headed. Lynyrd skynyrd s sweet home alabama cracked the top 10 back in 1974.