Sweet Home Alabama | Chords + Lyrics

Intro

One, two, three.
||: D5 Csus2 | G (fill) :|| (guitar)
Turn it up.
||: D5 Csus2 | G (fill) :|| (band)

Verse 1

||: D5 Csus2 | G (fill) :||
Big wheels keep on turnin’.
Carry me home to see my kin.
Singin’ songs about the south-land.
I miss Alabamy once again and I think it’s a sin, yes.

Instrumental 1

||: D/F# C/E | G/B :||

Verse 2

||: D5 Csus2 | G (fill) :||
Well, I heard Mister Young sing about her.
Well, I heard ol’ Neil put her down.
Well, I hope Neil Young will remember.
A southern man don’t need him around anyhow.

Chorus 1

||: D5 Csus2 | G (fill) :||
Sweet home Alabama.
Where the skies are so blue.
Sweet home Alabama.
Lord, I’m comin’ home to you.

Solo 1

||: D5 Csus2 | G (fill) :||

Verse 3

| D5 Csus2 | G5 F C/E |
In Birmingham, they love the governor (boo-hoo-hoo).
||: D5 Csus2 | G (fill) :||
Now we all did what we could do.
Now Watergate does not bother me.
Does your conscience bother you? Tell the truth.

Chorus 2

||: D5 Csus2 | G (fill) :||
Sweet home Alabama.
Where the skies are blue.
Sweet home Alabama (oh yeah).
Lord, I’m comin’ home to you. Here I come, Alabama.

Solo 2

||: D5 Csus2 | G (fill) :|| x8

Instrumental 2

||: D/F# C/E | G/B :||

Verse 4

||: D5 Csus2 | G (fill) :||
Now Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers.
And they’ve been known to pick a song or two (yes they do).
Lord, they get me off so much.
They pick me up when I’m feelin’ blue, now how about you?

Chorus 3

||: D5 Csus2 | G (fill) :||
Sweet home Alabama.
Where the skies are so blue.
Sweet home Alabama.
| D5 Csus2 | G F C/E |
Lord, I’m comin’ home to you.

Chorus 4

||: D5 Csus2 | G (fill) :||
Sweet home Alabama (oh, sweet home).
Where the skies are so blue.
And the governor’s true.
Sweet home Alabama (lordy).
Lord, I’m comin’ home to you, yeah, yeah.

Solo 3 (piano)

||: D5 Csus2 | G (fill) :|| to fade
Montgomery’s got the answer.

Sweet Home Alabama chords, progressions, and TAB

Lynyrd Skynyrd’s classic Sweet Home Alabama is every covers band’s secret weapon, what they turn to if nothing else works!

Let’s look at the key, the Chords, progressions, and a few selected licks you simply must know to play this classic.

First of all, this tune is in the key of G, D is V, C is IV and G is I. Over the G chord, you play G major blues licks, that’s a major pentatonic with a m3rd.

In order to keep Sweet Home Alabama fun to play for years (which will undoubtedly happen, this tune escapes no one!) it’s better to keep it improvised, not memorized.

With that in mind, here’s the main riff, it’s not perfect, but rather shows you how this could be played. Learn it then try to find variations on this theme.

If you play what you see here along with the original recording, you’ll soon discover that what happens in bar 6, should actually have been the same as bar 2. As mentioned, you need to mix things up or you’ll end up hate playing this classic!

Here’s the instrumental riff, this can’t really be varied in the same way…

And finally, here are those extra chords that pop up twice in Sweet Home Alabama, first at the beginning of verse 3, then at the end of chorus 3.

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