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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, "Gimme 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" 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.[1]
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- ^ Rock Movers & Shakers by Dafydd Rees & Luke Crampton, 1991 Billboard Books.
