I'm only 2 videos into Jim Tompkins, Gimme Shelter and this one. Great stuff, he breaks it down from every angle and includes the music, which is extremely necessary! More music good. I learned many things I did not know in each - which isn't necessary but what sets this content apart. Thanks Jim!
Ed King, the song's cowriter (in that he co-composed the music), contradicted his former bandmates in a 2009 post on his website. He claimed that the song was originally intended as the unabashed defense of Alabama, and even Wallace, that the song appears to be: I can understand where the "boo boo boo" would be misunderstood. It's not US going "boo" ... it's what the Southern man hears the Northern man say every time the Southern man'd say "In Birmingham we love the gov'nor". Get it? "We all did what WE could do!" to get Wallace elected. It's not a popular opinion but Wallace stood for the average white guy in the South. "Watergate doesn't bother me" because that stuff happens in politics...but someone's conscience ought to bother them for what happened to Wallace. Arthur Bremer may or may not have been a yankee but he sure destroyed whatever chance Wallace had to be president. And hardly anyone in America noticed. I still like the plaque that hangs here in my office that says I'm an honorary member of the Alabama State Militia...signed personally by George C. Sure, the man had his flaws. But he spoke for the common man of the South. And, whoa, I'm gonna get in trouble over this whole dang post!"
Very insightful comment, thank you! Ed King did voice that contradictory version of what the verse about the Governor meant, and it's interesting that both Gary Rossington and Ronnie Van Zant remembered it the other way around, which is how I came to my opinion. It goes to show that an event can happen, and two people who witnessed it can see and/or remember it in totally different ways. Either way, really appreciate the note and thanks for watching!
This is really simple. Young's so-called song just repeats the yankee lies of past 158+ about the WAR being about slavery. Ronnie's song corrects this with the line 'Southern Man don't need him around anymore.' Which is all that we SOUTHERNERS wanted the yankees to just stay home & LEAVE US ALONE!
A friend of mine was touring a civil war battleground site about 20 years ago in Virginia. He was looking for a particular area of the place and stopped to ask a couple guys. When they heard what he was looking for which was the burial site of the union soldiers they said “oh you’re looking for the ‘enemy’ cemetery. The enemy site is over there”. 158 years later and some people have still learned nothing.
@@tunesman100 Indeed! After 158+ years of continuing yankee LIES about the WAR We SOUTHERNERS will continue to fight for the TRUTH. Today's yankee nation is a DIRECT RESULT of what occurred as a result of the WAR. How do you like your decadent yankee nation now? GOOD NEWS: this decadent land is now under the LORD's Righteous Judgment; will be destroyed soon----
Sweet home Alabama has 255 million listens on TH-cam music and southern man only has 7.2 million now tell me which song is clearly better! Lynyrd Skynyrd all day!!!!
Argumentum ad populum, or "argument to the people" in Latin, is a fallacious argument that claims something is true because many people believe it. This type of argument is also known as the bandwagon fallacy, appeal to numbers, or appeal to popularity. So no.
God Bless Ed King. RIP
I'm only 2 videos into Jim Tompkins, Gimme Shelter and this one. Great stuff, he breaks it down from every angle and includes the music, which is extremely necessary! More music good. I learned many things I did not know in each - which isn't necessary but what sets this content apart. Thanks Jim!
I never knew "Sweet Home Alabama" was popular in Canada. 😂😂😂😂
Thanks for the facts.😊
Ed King, the song's cowriter (in that he co-composed the music), contradicted his former bandmates in a 2009 post on his website. He claimed that the song was originally intended as the unabashed defense of Alabama, and even Wallace, that the song appears to be:
I can understand where the "boo boo boo" would be misunderstood. It's not US going "boo" ... it's what the Southern man hears the Northern man say every time the Southern man'd say "In Birmingham we love the gov'nor". Get it? "We all did what WE could do!" to get Wallace elected. It's not a popular opinion but Wallace stood for the average white guy in the South.
"Watergate doesn't bother me" because that stuff happens in politics...but someone's conscience ought to bother them for what happened to Wallace. Arthur Bremer may or may not have been a yankee but he sure destroyed whatever chance Wallace had to be president. And hardly anyone in America noticed. I still like the plaque that hangs here in my office that says I'm an honorary member of the Alabama State Militia...signed personally by George C. Sure, the man had his flaws. But he spoke for the common man of the South. And, whoa, I'm gonna get in trouble over this whole dang post!"
Very insightful comment, thank you! Ed King did voice that contradictory version of what the verse about the Governor meant, and it's interesting that both Gary Rossington and Ronnie Van Zant remembered it the other way around, which is how I came to my opinion. It goes to show that an event can happen, and two people who witnessed it can see and/or remember it in totally different ways. Either way, really appreciate the note and thanks for watching!
100%.
Watergate doesn’t bother me either…it was CIA developed political theater at it’s best.
It's pronounced LINard Skynard. Not LENard. 😉
This is really simple. Young's so-called song just repeats the yankee lies of past 158+ about the WAR being about slavery. Ronnie's song corrects this with the line 'Southern Man don't need him around anymore.' Which is all that we SOUTHERNERS wanted the yankees to just stay home & LEAVE US ALONE!
A friend of mine was touring a civil war battleground site about 20 years ago in Virginia. He was looking for a particular area of the place and stopped to ask a couple guys. When they heard what he was looking for which was the burial site of the union soldiers they said “oh you’re looking for the ‘enemy’ cemetery. The enemy site is over there”. 158 years later and some people have still learned nothing.
@@tunesman100 Indeed! After 158+ years of continuing yankee LIES about the WAR We SOUTHERNERS will continue to fight for the TRUTH. Today's yankee nation is a DIRECT RESULT of what occurred as a result of the WAR. How do you like your decadent yankee nation now? GOOD NEWS: this decadent land is now under the LORD's Righteous Judgment; will be destroyed soon----
Lies? What lies are you referring to?
rubbish
Holy fuck a lost causer in the wild.
Sweet home Alabama has 255 million listens on TH-cam music and southern man only has 7.2 million now tell me which song is clearly better! Lynyrd Skynyrd all day!!!!
True enough! Still doesn't change the fact that Skynard was butthurt and overreacted.
Argumentum ad populum, or "argument to the people" in Latin, is a fallacious argument that claims something is true because many people believe it. This type of argument is also known as the bandwagon fallacy, appeal to numbers, or appeal to popularity. So no.