Post #141436 by mrs. pineapple on Tue, Feb 15, 2005 9:48 PM

On 2005-02-15 21:21, johntiki wrote:
This is way off topic from the grammys but after reading Mrs. Pineapple's post about the lyrics to Lynrd Skynrd's hillbilly anthem I decided to look them up (I never could understand a damn word of that song anyway!) Well I came across this...

http://www.crazylyrics.com/lynyrd-skynyrd-sweet-home-alabama.htm

I started reading the lyrics and they made even less sense than I could imagine...come to find out Klaas Van Klempert was doing his best translating English to German to English again...

that translation is a bit, off? :wink:

They wrote Sweet Home Alabama in response to Neil Young's Southern Man, which is pretty much about segregation, and the civil rights movement. It explains the line 'well I heard Neil Young sing about it, I hope old Neil will remember, a southern man don't need him around...blah blah blah'
The line about "they love the governor", is about George Wallace, who ordered the fire hoses in Selma, I wonder if Gretchen Wilson realizes that?

anyway - the funny thing is, her big hit is 'Redneck Woman', hence the Green Day middle finger, in my opinion! She really can't sing though, I saw one review that compared her performance to that of Britney Spears dueting with Aerosmith at the Super Bowl a few years back. Don't even get me started on the Super Bowl....