Words
& Music:
Ronnie
Van Zant, Ed King & Gary Rossington (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
There's a
full transcription of this in the February 2005 issue of Guitar One and
an issue of Guitar World which predates that.
Basic riff [repeat
2x for intro]:
D C
G
E|-------------------------------|----------------------------------|
B|--------3---------------3------|----------------------------------|
G|----------2---------------0----|--------0--0-----------------0----|
D|--0--0------0---------------0--|--------------------0-2p0------0--|
A|--------------3p0-3------------|-------------0-0h2---------2------|
E|-------------------------------|-3p0-3----------------------------|
D C
G
Big wheels,
keep on turning.
D C
G
Carry me
home to see my kin.
D C
G
Singing
songs about the southland.
D C G
I miss Ole
'Bamy once again; and I think it's a sin.
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.
CHORUS:
Sweet home,
Alabama. Where the skies are so
blue.
Sweet home,
Alabama. Lord, I'm coming home to
you.
D
C
G F C D
In
Birmingham they love the Gov'nor.
Ooo-ooo-ooo!
Now, we all
did what we could do.
Now,
Watergate, it does not bother me,
Does your
conscience bother you? Tell the
truth!
CHORUS:
Now Muscle
Shoals has got the Swampers
And they've
been known to pick a tune or two.
Lord, they
get me off so much.
They pick me
up when I'm feeling blue. Now, how
about you?
CHORUS: