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Sweet Home Alabama is een single van de Amerikaanse southern rockband Lynyrd Skynyrd van het album Second Helping uit 1974. Het is uitgegroeid tot een van de meest herkenbare rocknummers aller tijden en samen met "Free Bird" het bekendste nummer van Lynyrd Skynyrd.

"Sweet Home Alabama" is a song by American rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, released on the band's second album Second Helping (1974). It was written in response to Neil Young's songs "Southern Man" and "Alabama", which the band felt blamed the entire Southern United States for slavery; Young is name-checked and dissed in the lyrics. It reached number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1974, becoming the band's highest-charting single.

The song remains a staple in southern and classic rock, and, along with "Free Bird", is arguably the band's signature song.

The political lyrics of the song compare Richard Nixon and his Watergate scandal with the governor of Alabama George Wallace and his political supporters in Birmingham. The lyrics have been perceived as mocking the American liberals and their outrage at Nixon's conduct.