Sweet Home Alabama
"Sweet Home Alabama" is a song by Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd that first appeared in 1974 on their second album, "Second Helping".
Alabama Song
The "Alabama Song" was written as a German poem and translated into idiosyncratic English for the author Bertolt Brecht by his close collaborator Elisabeth Hauptmann in 1925 and published in Brecht's 1927 "Home Devotions" (), a parody of Martin Luther's collection of sermons. It was set to music by Kurt Weill for the 1927 play "Little Mahagonny" (') and reused for Brecht and Weill's 1930 opera "Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny" ('), where it is sung by Jenny and her fellow prostitutes in Act I. Although the majority of all three works is in German, the "Alabama Song" retained Hauptmann's English lyrics throughout.