Letras e curiosidades!

Hoje o post vai falar de duas músicas e duas letras de artistas diferentes e tratar de uma curiosidade envolvendo elas.

Você provavelmente já ouviu os versos de "Sweet Home Alabama" do Lynyrd Skynyrd (pronunciado 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd) que dizem: 
"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".

Essa parte da letra é uma resposta a música "Southern Man" (e também de "Alabama") do Neil Young que fala sobre racismo e a escravidão que existiam na região sul dos Estados Unidos.

Então quando "Sweet Home" foi escrita era uma tributo ao estúdio Muscle Shoals onde o Lynyrd Skynyrd haviam gravado em 1971 e também as coisas boas do Alabama, respondendo que haviam lá mais do que pessoas racistas e presas ao passado.

Entretanto, nunca houve uma richa entre eles por causa das músicas e respostas. Eles sempre trataram o tema de forma amistosa e o Neil Young inclusive tocou "Sweet Home" uma vez em 1977 no memorial pela morte de 3 membros do Lynyrd Skynyrd em um acidente de avião naquele mesmo ano.

Ficam aí as letras e músicas para ouvirem, lerem e tirarem suas próprias conclusões!

Southern Man

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?

Sweet Home Alabama

Big wheels keep on turning
Carry me home to see my kin
Singing songs about the Southland
I miss Alabamy once again
And I think its a sin, yes

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

Sweet home Alabama
Where the skies are so blue
Sweet Home Alabama
Lord, I'm coming home to you

In Birmingham they love the governor
Now we all did what we could do
Now Watergate does not bother me
Does your conscience bother you?
Tell the truth

Sweet home Alabama
Where the skies are so blue
Sweet Home Alabama
Lord, I'm coming home to you
Here I come Alabama

Now Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers
And they've been known to pick a song or two
Lord they get me off so much
They pick me up when I'm feeling blue
Now how about you?

Sweet home Alabama
Where the skies are so blue
Sweet Home Alabama
Lord, I'm coming home to you

Sweet home Alabama
Oh sweet home baby
Where the skies are so blue
And the governor's true
Sweet Home Alabama
Lordy
Lord, I'm coming home to you
Yea, yea Montgomery's got the answer