Neil Young - Alabama

From Harvest (1972)
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ALABAMA

Oh Alabama
The devil fools with the best laid plan.
Swing low Alabama
You got spare change
You got to feel strange
And now the moment is all that it meant.

Alabama, you got the weight on your shoulders
That's breaking your back.
Your Cadillac has got a wheel in the ditch
And a wheel on the track

Oh Alabama
Banjos playing through the broken glass
Windows down in Alabama.
See the old folks tied in white ropes
Hear the banjo.
Don't it take you down home?

Alabama, you got the weight on your shoulders
That's breaking your back.
Your Cadillac has got a wheel in the ditch
And a wheel on the track

Oh Alabama.
Can I see you and shake your hand.
Make friends down in Alabama.
I'm from a new land
I come to you and see all this ruin
What are you doing Alabama?
You got the rest of the union to help you along
What's going wrong?

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• Neil
• Young
• Alabama
• Harvest
• 1972
• Folk
• Rock
• Classic

[1DarkPunk]

Im a southern man and im not at all racist however I am with the south on many other things because I was southern born and southern raised but I love Neil Young and I understand exactly what this song and southern man are talking about. They are not down talking the south they are saying to the racist pigs in the south that they should walk in a black mans shoes before hating... I understand and agree completely

[blindriv3r]

@TheSouthernrock without those 2 songs you would have never heard 'Sweet Home Alabama'....these guys were mutual admirers, there was no feud, Ronnie is wearing a Neil 'Tonight's the Night" T-Shirt on his last album cover, performed in it often and legend says was buried in it.

[neirfane]

lol. ohio is like the yankee Alabama. I've been there. Same pride, same salt. Guess what. we are all the same. Northern Hemisphere folk.

[bentnob]

love the guitar on the intro. those chords are lush!

[bentnob]

@THEgreatCORNHOLIO245 when did he say all southeners are racist in this song? he was very subtly highlighting the race problems in the south. if you aren't racist then it obviously doesn't apply to you, but maybe you could help to heal the problem, rather than having a period over a song.

[bentnob]

@dcguitar357 your black friends should punch the dumb off your face for even using that word. perhaps you think you mean stupid rather than black when you use the word, and consequently are stopping it being a racial phrase, but to use the word as an insult is disgusting period.

[bentnob]

@dcguitar357 ah if you've seen it at school then it must be true everywhere else? dumbass

[mjann101]

LOVE IT!!! beats anything bt Skynard

[whtmtnbills]

Neil Speaks the truth......have you EVER read a history book?

[peterzang]

@blindriv3r Correct. And Neil says, the first time he heard 'Sweet Home' he really loved the beginning and the guitars. Then he said, 'Then I heard my name in there and I thought, 'This is really great!' Neil has a great sense of humor

[englishsandy]

he is just being a nirthen arse hole.He is so pretencious.Stay away from the beautiful south.It does not need him anyway.