Gimme Three Steps
Track:??Gimme Three Steps, by Lynyrd Skynyrd
One night in The Little Brown Jug in Jacksonville Florida, an underage Ronnie Van Zant, got in using a fake ID.??Being young, he might not have understood exactly how to behave in a bar.??He began to dance with a young lady, whose name was Linda, referred to as Linda Lou in the lyrics of the song “Gimme Three Steps”. A man, perhaps her boyfriend or husband, approached and began to reach into his boot.??Ronnie didn’t bother to wait to see what he was pulling out…and just “hightailed it” for the door double-time, shouting “just gimme a few steps and I'll be gone”.?He met his bandmates (Gary?Rossington and Allen Collins)?in the parking lot.??And they wrote the song that night. The song made it to Lynyrd Skynyrd’s first album and was also released as a “live” single.??So, even a bit of a frightening night…can have a good outcome…as long as you get a three-step lead.