whitehall
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Wiki doesn't volunteer the information so you have to look for it . Ronnie Van Zant wrote Sweet Home for Lynard Skynard as a response to Canadian born Neil Young 's insulting song about the people who live in the Southern US. Ironically Young's (who was the darling of the liberal left wing music industry) song is forgotten while Sweet Home is a classic southern rock hit. Ronnie Van Zant and most of the original Lynard Skynard group were killed in a plane crash. Along comes quirky Warren Zevon. I like Zevon's approach to music. It's kind of like his friend and world class drug abuser Hunter Thompson's approach to literature. Both Zevon and Thompson and the rest of the post 60's music/media culture were radical left wingers. Zevon's (who was born in Chicago) amazing hate filled hit called "Play that dead man's song" was a parody of Sweet Home Alabama and profoundly insulting to Southern culture.