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Sweet Home Alabama

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Tuning: E A D G B E

Capo: No capo

BPM: 100

    Sweet Home Alabama
    [Intro]                              [Verse 1}                            Big wheels keep on turnin', Carry me home to see my kin, Singin' songs about the south-land
N                                                                             D              C    
e|----------------------|---------------|--------------------|---------------|2--------------0----|
B|----------------------|---------------|--------------------|---------------|3--------------1----|
G|----------------------|---------------|--------------------|---------------|2--------------0----|
D|----------------------|---------------|--------------------|---------------|0--------------2----|
A|----------------------|---------------|--------------------|---------------|---------------3----|
E|----------------------|---------------|--------------------|---------------|--------------------|

N                        G         D               C                         G    D               C         
e|----------------------|3---------2---------|-----0--------------|----------3----2----|----------0---------|
B|----------------------|3---------3---------|-----1--------------|----------3----3----|----------1---------|
G|----------------------|4---------2---------|-----0--------------|----------4----2----|----------0---------|
D|----------------------|5---------0---------|-----2--------------|----------5----0----|----------2---------|
A|----------------------|5-------------------|-----3--------------|----------5---------|----------3---------|
E|----------------------|3-------------------|--------------------|----------3---------|--------------------|

[ preview ends at bar 10 — the interactive score has the rest ]

                                              [Bridge]
                                              I miss Alabamy once again and I think it's a sin, yes,
                              G               D                    C                    G

    [Verse 2]                            Well I heard Mister Young sing about her, Well I heard ol' Neil put her down,
                                         D                                   C

                                                                                   [Chorus]
                                                                                   Well I hope Neil Young will remember, A southern man don't need him around anyhow
         G    D                               C                         G          D

              C                         G          D                         C                         G

          [Solo 1]
          Sweet home Alabama, Where the skies are so blue, Sweet home Alabama, Lord I'm comin' home to you
          D         C          G              D                    C                    G

         D         C               G          D              C                    G          F    C

    [Verse 3]                            In Birmingham they love the governor (boo-hoo-hoo),Now we all did what we could do
                                         D                         C                              G

         F    C          D                              C                         G

    [Chorus]
    Now Watergate does not bother me,Does your conscience bother you?,Tell the truth
    D                    C                    G              D                    C

                         [Solo 2]
                         Sweet home Alabama, Where the skies are so blue, Sweet home Alabama, Lord I'm comin' home to you
              G          D         C          G              D                    C                    G

         D         C               G          D              C                    G          F    C

                    [Bridge]

    [Verse 4]            Now Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers,And they've been known to pick a song or two (yes they do)
                         D                         C                              G               D

                                                                         [Chorus
                                                                         Lord they get me off so much,They pick me up when I'm feelin' blue, Now how about you?
                         C                                   G           D

    C                    G         D                         C                                    G

          Sweet home Alabama,Where the skies are so blue, Sweet home Alabama,Lord ('m comin' home to you
          D              C          G         D                    C

         C    D          C              G          D               C                         G

               Sweet home Alabama (oh, sweet home),Where the skies are so blue,And the governor's true
    C          D              C          G                                    D

                                              [Outro]
                                              Sweet home Alabama (lordy),Lord I'm comin' home to you,
    C                    G                    D              C          G                         D

    C                              G                                                         G
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Instruments
Guitar
Genres
Rock
Tracks
1
Tempo
100 BPM
Time signature
4/4
Tuning
E A D G B E
Key
G major
Difficulty
Beginner
Bars
115
Frets used
Frets 0-5
Published 16 May 2021

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Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama (1974)

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Sweet Home Alabama is a Guitar score arranged by Brady Napolitano and filed under Rock. Read it as tablature or as standard sheet music notation, play it back at any tempo, and practise it a bar at a time.

It is written in 4/4 at 100 BPM. It is in G major, and the arrangement runs 115 bars. We grade it beginner — it stays between frets 0 and 5 and there are 4 chord shapes to learn. It is written as plain fretted notes, with no bends, slides or hammer-ons to learn first.

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