Gimme Three Steps

Song infobox
Name =Gimme Three Steps


Artist =Lynyrd Skynyrd
Album =(pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd)
Released =August 13, 1973
track_no =3
Recorded =Studio One, Doraville, Georgia, March 1973
Genre =Southern rock
Length =04:26
Label =MCA Records
Writer =Allen Collins, Ronnie Van Zant
Producer =Al Kooper
prev ="Tuesday's Gone"
prev_no =2
next ="Simple Man"
next_no =4

"Gimme Three Steps" is a song by southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd released on their 1973 debut album, "(pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd)". It can often be heard on many classic rock radio stations today. It was written by Allen Collins and Ronnie Van Zant. The song is memorable for its opening riff and story of how the speaker (presumably Ronnie) was dancing with a girl named Linda Lou at a bar when a man enters with a gun 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." [http://www.lynyrdskynyrdhistory.com/lyrics/70-77/pronounc/sonc.html] essentially asking for three steps to flee.

The album became the band's first hit, driven by the success of the single "Free Bird", but "Gimme Three Steps" was never charted. [Rock Movers & Shakers by Dafydd Rees & Luke Crampton, 1991 Billboard Books.]

Covers, samples, and media appearances

* The song is playable as downloadable content in the music video game "Rock Band" and included on Rock Band Track Pack Vol. 1 for the Playstation 2 and the Nintendo Wii.
* The song was also briefly played in the episode 'Hank’s Cowboy Movie' from the TV Series "King Of The Hill".
* The song was featured in the FOX show "Don't Forget the Lyrics!" where it was sung by Poison lead singer Bret Michaels.
* "Gimme Three Steps" is heard in the movie "" in a scene that involves Will Ferrell drinking at the bar before meeting Sacha Baron Cohen.
* The song is parodied in a commercial for the short-lived American bar soap "Spirit"; "Gimme three soap/gimme three soap Spirit."

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