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.
Joe Queenan on a Lynyrd Skynyrd song that told Neil Young where he could stick it. But is it a white supremacist anthem? Home, sweet home: A 17-year-old civil rights demonstrator is attacked by a police dog in Birmingham, Alabama, on May 3, 1963. Sweet Home Alabama falls into that wonderful category of songs known on the continent as chansons de revanche or dissenlieder.