Sweet Home AlabamaBy: Rebecca Kollar, Jordan Clark,
and Caleb Brinker
Figurative Language
Song includes Anaphora Alliteration Apostrophe????
Confusing words in the song
Confusing words or phrases, One verse of the song includes the line "Now Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers/And they've been known to pick a song or two." This refers to the town of muscle shoals, Alabama, a popular location for recording popular music due to the "sound" crafted by local recording studios and back-up musicians. "The Swampers" referred to in the lyrics are the muscle shoals rhythm section. These musicians, who crafted the "Muscle Shoals Sound", were inducted into the Alabama music hall of fame in 1995
Background of the song
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.
Song lyrics
Big wheels keep on turning Carry me home to see my kin
Singing songs about the Southland I miss Alabamy once again
And I think its a sin, yes
Well I heard mister Young sing about her Well, I heard ole Neil put her down
Well, I hope Neil Young will remember A Southern man don't need him around anyhow
Sweet home Alabama Where the skies are so blue
Sweet Home Alabama Lord, I'm coming home to you
In Birmingham they love the governor Now we all did what we could do
Now Watergate does not bother me Does your conscience bother you?
Tell the truth
Sweet home Alabama Where the skies are so blue
Sweet Home Alabama Lord, I'm coming home to you
Here I come Alabama
Sweet home Alabama Where the skies are so blue Sweet Home Alabama Lord, I'm coming home to you Here I come Alabama
Now Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers And they've been known to pick a song or two Lord they get me off so much They pick me up when I'm feeling blue Now how about you? Sweet home Alabama Where the skies are so blue Sweet Home Alabama Lord, I'm coming home to you
Criticism of the song summary
Sweet home alabama was in response to neil youngs song southern man in alabama neil youngs songs were about segregation was the way to go and it was saying that all southerners were racist
We like this song because of the beat and the way this song to say racism is not the way all southerners are
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