| Church blew up in Birmingham
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| Four little black girls killed for no goddamn good reason
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| All this hate and violence can’t come to no good end
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| A stain on the good name
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| A whole lot of good people dragged through the blood and glass
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| Blood stains on their good names and all of us take the blame
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| Meanwhile in North Alabama, Wilson Pickett comes to town
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| To record that sweet soul music, to get that Muscle Shoals sound
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| Meanwhile in North Alabama, Aretha Franklin comes to town
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| To record that sweet soul music, to get that Muscle Shoals sound
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| And out in California, a rock star from Canada writes a couple of great songs
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| about the
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| Bad shit that went down
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| «Southern Man» and «Alabama» certainly told some truth
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| But there were a lot of good folks down here and Neil Young wasn’t around
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| Meanwhile in North Alabama, Lynyrd Skynyrd came to town
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| To record with Jimmy Johnson at Muscle Shoals Sound
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| And they met some real good people, not racist pieces of shit
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| And they wrote a song about it and that song became a hit
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| Ronnie and Neil Ronnie and Neil
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| Rock stars today ain’t half as real
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| Speaking their minds on how they feel
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| Let them guitars blast for Ronnie and Neil
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| Now Ronnie and Neil became good friends their feud was just in song
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| Skynyrd was a bunch of Neil Young fans and Neil he loved that song
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| So He wrote «Powderfinger» for Skynyrd to record
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| But Ronnie ended up singing «Sweet Home Alabama» to the lord
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| And Neil helped carry Ronnie in his casket to the ground
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| And to my way of thinking, us southern men need both of them around
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| Ronnie and Neil Ronnie and Neil
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| Rock stars today ain’t half as real
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| Speaking their minds on how they feel
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| Let them guitars blast for Ronnie and Neil |