Gimme Three Steps
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"Gimme Three Steps" is a song by southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd released on its 1973 debut album, (pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd). The song can often be heard on many classic rock radio stations today. It was written by Allen Collins and Ronnie Van Zant.
The album became the band's first hit, driven by the success of the single "Free Bird", but "Gimme Three Steps" never charted.[1]
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The song is memorable for its opening riff and story of how the speaker was dancing with a girl named Linda Lou at a bar when a man, probably the girl's boyfriend or husband, enters with a gun (described as a .44) and catches them, angrily believing her to be cheating. The song's title refers to the chorus, "Won't you give me three steps/Gimme three steps mister/Gimme three steps towards the door?/Gimme three steps/Gimme three steps mister/And you'll never see me no more."[2] essentially asking for three steps head start to flee. The song is also based on a real-life experience Ronnie Van Zant had at a biker bar in Jacksonville known as The Pastime, including having a gun pulled on him, and thus inspiring him to write the lyrics on his way home.
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