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genre[]

  • Southern rock

artist[]

Lynyrd Skynyrd

album[]

  • Second Helping

significance[]

  • certified gold

trivia[]

  • caused controversy regarding the then-Governor of Alabama George Wallace and the Watergate Scandal
  • a verse in the song was written in response to the Neil Young songs Southern Man and Alabama
  • the riff of this song was used in the Warren Zevon song Werewolves of London and the Kid Rock song All Summer Long
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