Sweet Home Alabama chords and lyrics

Fun fact

The intro guitar riff of ”Sweet Home Alabama” is arguably one of the most famous and iconic guitar riffs of all time. It’s up there with ”Smoke on the water” and ”Stairway to heaven”! The song was released back in 1974 and instantly became a Southern rock anthem.

The song is in the key of G, but starts off on the V chord, which is D. The band is using a Cadd9 chord instead of a standard C major chord, and this makes the transition from the D chord, to the C chord and back to the tonic much easier. It also sounds great! Have fun playing ”Sweet Home Alabama”!