Sweet Home Alabama was allegedly a response to those words. The portion of the song referring to Governor George Wallace in particular made some believe that Lynyrd Skynyrd disagreed with desegregation, seeing as how the governor stood for segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.

How did Melanie lose the baby in Sweet Home Alabama?

Melanie married Jake right out of high school, barefoot, pregnant and going nowhere fast. She had a miscarriage. And then she ran away. For seven years she fled everything she had learned to despise(her hometown, parents and hubby), making a new life for herself (one of glamour, money and prestige).