Alright so in the song Sweet Home Alabama the lyrics "I heard old Neal put her down" how did he put her down?
2007-05-27 18:51:34 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Lyrics
"...Also that year, Young released his third solo album, After the Gold Rush (1970), which featured, among others, a young Nils Lofgren, Stephen Stills, and CSNY bassist Greg Reeves. Young also recorded some tracks with Crazy Horse, but dismissed them early in the sessions. Aided by his newfound fame with CSNY, the album was a commercial breakthrough for Young and contains some of his best known work. Notable tracks include the title track, with dream-like lyrics that run a gamut of subjects from drugs and interpersonal relationships to environmental concerns, as well as Young’s controversial and acerbic condemnation of racism in "Southern Man," which, along with a later song entitled "Alabama," later prompted Lynyrd Skynyrd to decry Young by name in the lyrics to "Sweet Home Alabama.""
2007-05-27 18:54:27 · answer #1 · answered by thebritishfight 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Neil Young Alabama Lyrics
2016-11-06 01:31:39 · answer #2 · answered by mcthay 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Another one of the verses is an attack on Neil Young: "I hope Neil Young will remember a southern man don't need him around anyhow." Young had written songs like "Southern Man" and "Alabama," which implied that people in the Southern US were racist and stuck in the past. Skynyrd responded with this, a song about Southern pride and all the good things in Alabama. The feud between Lynyrd Skynyrd and Neil Young was always good-natured fun; they were actually big fans of each other. Ronnie Van Zant often wore Neil Young T-shirts on stage and is wearing one on the cover of Street Survivors, the last Skynyrd album before his death.
2007-05-27 18:57:30 · answer #3 · answered by a_tomyn 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Neil Young wrote a song called " Southern Man" talking about how the south treated slaves in that day. Alabama is part of the Southern States. Some may say Neil may have been talking about the entire United States (as southern) being that he is from Ontario (i think).
2007-05-27 18:58:20 · answer #4 · answered by cwt905 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sweet Home Alabama Wiki
2016-12-26 18:10:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lynard Skynard says, "I hope Neil Young will remember, a southern man don't need him around anyhow" In Sweet Home Alabama
In response to Neil Young's song Southern Man(below)
Southern man better keep your head
Don’t forget what your good book said
Southern change gonna come at last
Now your crosses are burning fast
Southern man
I saw cotton and I saw black
Tall white mansions and little shacks.
Southern man when will you pay them back?
I heard screamin’ and bullwhips cracking
How long? how long?
Southern man better keep your head
Don’t forget what your good book said
Southern change gonna come at last
Now your crosses are burning fast
Southern man
Lily belle, your hair is golden brown
I’ve seen your black man comin’ round
Swear by God I’m gonna cut him down!
I heard screamin’ and bullwhips cracking
How long? how long?
2007-05-27 18:54:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
He implied that people from the south were all prejudiced. I don't if you really felt that way or if it was just some cool lyrics to a song. The song by the way was "Southern Man". Take it easy!
2007-05-27 18:56:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's in his song "southern man." He is talking about making restitution for slavery.
2007-05-27 18:55:01 · answer #8 · answered by martin h 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
check out the song "southern man"
2007-05-30 05:29:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
devil done put her down ?
2007-05-27 19:38:05 · answer #10 · answered by miranda1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋