Sweet Home Alabama

"Sweet Home Alabama" is a song by American rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, released on the band's second album (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.