Gimme Three Steps

By Lynyrd Skynyrd

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I was cuttin the rug down at a place called 'The Jug'
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with a girl named Linda Lou
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When in walked a man with a gun in his hand and
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he was looking for you know who
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He said "Hey there fellow with the hair colored yellow,
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    watcha tryin' to prove?
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Cuz' thatsa' my woman there and I'm a man who cares
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and this might be all for you"    (I said "excuse me!")

I was scared and fearing for my life
shaking like a leaf on a tree
Cuz' he was lean and mean and big and bad, Lord,
pointing that gun at me
I said "Wait a minute mister, I didn't even kiss her,
    don't want no trouble wit chu
and I know you don't owe me but I wish you would let me
ask one favor from you:
              
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(CHORUS)  Say won't you Gimme 3 steps, gimme 3 steps mister,
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          gimme 3 steps toward the door?
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          Gimme 3 steps, gimme 3 steps mister
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          and you'll never see me no more

          (Solo)

O well the crowd cleared away and I began to pray
and the water fell down to the floor
and I'm telling you, son, it ain't no fun,
staring straight down a fourty-four.
Well, he turned and screamed at Linda Lou,
and that's the break I was looking for
and you could hear me screaming a mile away
as I was headed out toward the door

          (CHORUS)