Drive by Truckers
Ronnie and Neil
from "Southern Rock Opera"


 RONNIE AND NEIL (Hood / DBT)

 Church blew up in Birmingham
 Four little black girls killed for no goddamn good reason
 All this hate and violence can't come to no good end
 A stain on the good name.
 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

 Meanwhile in North Alabama, Wilson Pickett comes to town
 To record that sweet soul music, to get that Muscle Shoals sound

 Meanwhile in North Alabama, Aretha Franklin comes to town
 To record that sweet soul music, to get that Muscle Shoals sound

 And out in California, a rock star from Canada writes a couple of great
 songs about the
 Bad shit that went down
 "Southern Man" and "Alabama" certainly told some truth
 But there were a lot of good folks down here and Neil Young wasn't around

 Meanwhile in North Alabama, Lynyrd Skynyrd came to town
 To record with Jimmy Johnson at Muscle Shoals Sound
 And they met some real good people, not racist pieces of shit
 And they wrote a song about it and that song became a hit

 Ronnie and Neil Ronnie and Neil
 Rock stars today ain't half as real
 Speaking there minds on how they feel
 Let them guitars blast for Ronnie and Neil

 Now Ronnie and Neil became good friends their feud was just in song
 Skynyrd was a bunch of Neil Young fans and Neil he loved that song
 So He wrote "Powderfinger" for Skynyrd to record
 But Ronnie ended up singing "Sweet Home Alabama" to the lord

 And Neil helped carry Ronnie in his casket to the ground
 And to my way of thinking, us southern men need both of them around

 Ronnie and Neil Ronnie and Neil Rock stars today ain't half as real
 Speaking their minds on how they feel
 Let them guitars blast for Ronnie and Neil