I love this song. It's obviously a song about the relationship between Ronnie Van Zant and Neil Young and putting right the misconception that they were sworn enemies.
The songs is really very self explanatory.
this song starts off with reference to the 16th street baptist church bombings in 1963 in Birmingham Alabama. 4 young black girls were killed after the KKK planted sticks of dynamite under and around the church. the line "A whole lot of good people dragged threw the blood and glass. Blood stains on their good names and all of us take the blame" is obviously to say that many people in Birmingham (and Alabama in general) weren't racists and couldn't have cared about race but got tarred with the same brush.
The song then goes into the relationship between the two and how it was formed after Neil young wrote a few songs about the racism in Alabama - there's not really much else to it.
I love this song. It's obviously a song about the relationship between Ronnie Van Zant and Neil Young and putting right the misconception that they were sworn enemies.
The songs is really very self explanatory.
this song starts off with reference to the 16th street baptist church bombings in 1963 in Birmingham Alabama. 4 young black girls were killed after the KKK planted sticks of dynamite under and around the church. the line "A whole lot of good people dragged threw the blood and glass. Blood stains on their good names and all of us take the blame" is obviously to say that many people in Birmingham (and Alabama in general) weren't racists and couldn't have cared about race but got tarred with the same brush.
The song then goes into the relationship between the two and how it was formed after Neil young wrote a few songs about the racism in Alabama - there's not really much else to it.