The yield curve describes the yields for Treasury bills, notes and bonds. It's called a curve because, if it were plotted on a graph, the yields would normally slope up. That's because Treasury bills, which are of short duration, don't usually pay as high a yield as the notes and even longer-term bonds. Why?
Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd Songfacts. Lynyrd Skynyrd is from Jacksonville, Florida. They wrote this song about their impressions of Alabama and as a tribute to the studio musicians at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, where they recorded from 1970-1972.
Sweet Home was a wintering ground for the wagoneers who transported supplies on the cotton road between Alleyton and Brownsville during the Civil War. In the 1870s the Czechs and Germans arrived. The San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railroad came through in 1887, but missed the town by five miles. Many Sweet Homers moved to the railroad, but a few stayed. Sweet Home still has two cemeteries, reflecting the move of years ago.