This song always touches my heart ❤

This is my favorite song of Lynyrd Skynyrd

I love this band and all of the original songs

Ronnie Van Zant is the orginal singer of Lynard Skynyrd. He has long passed away including almost the whole band. They died in a plane crash in 1977.

Brother I love skynard and I'll tell you another band you'll love the eagles the song is I can't tell you why

I was 14 and sobbed for days when they crashed.

@@jonpates7209 sad

They were my first concert with many awesome people playing. You need to listen to Creedence Clearwater Revival that is an awesome band later called The blue ridge mountain rangers

Completely wrong. Mama Vanzant passed in 2000. I was in Jacksonville at the time.

@@phnxbyrdphnxbyrd6403 I said mother when I meant grandmother. My mistake bro. Shortly after Ronnie Van Zant's grandmother and Gary Rossington's mother died, they got together in Van Zant's apartment and started telling stories about them. Rossington came up with a chord progression, and Van Zant wrote the lyrics based on advice the women had given them over the years. They wrote it in about an hour. "We just put down in a song what our mama or grandma had said to us," Rossington told Paul Ingles. "They really wrote it, we just played it."

@@spartansix2323 Not to rain on your parade but...Once you get to know about Gary you know he is constantly getting stories mixed up or just flat out wrong. Ronnie actually wrote that song in the shower. These are Ronnie's words...I’ve had a lot of ’em come to me in the shower,” he said, going on to add, “I wrote the song ‘Simple Man’ in the shower.“ Gary likes to give himself credit on a lot of things, but this song is about a son and mother relationship nothing more or less. Of course Gary had a part in it, but the lyrics were already down before Ronnie even approached him with it.

@@phnxbyrdphnxbyrd6403 didn’t know that either. Just going off what I read bro.

@@spartansix2323 Not a big deal. I got to know the families and a lot of things have been thrown around by a couple band members that are mis- recollections or flat out lies. It's like they say... never get to know your heroes.

she is a talent just like dad

Sadly, Tammy passed away in the past year or so...

Very good suggestion. My favorite by this band.

Very underrated song

Love that song!

No D in their last name.

Gimme Three Steps is my very favorite

This and Tuesdsys Gone are my 2 favorites

I agree. It somehow gives me hope for the future.

Mine too.

Got out of the Navy in 1979.. got a asst Mgr position at bar/restaurant that were in malls called Chelsea Street Pub. Lovely young lady worked there and she was dating the drummer from Molly Hatchet- Bruce ( Not sure of the spelling) Crum/ Crumb. Met him and spoke briefly, very nice guy, heck of a drummer. Gina invited us to go to Houston where she was meeting up with Bruce, they were back up to The Outlaws. Backstage the lead singer had a particular whiskey he drank and someone had drank his. He was known for fighting and he looked at me and I just said ,I ain't the one, that's open for interpretation but like in the Skynyrd song ,comes to fix and I'm prepared to fight, nothing happened . Concert was great, both bands, the band was getting on the bus and rolling to the next show. They gave us rooms that they weren't going to use anyway so we didn't have to drive back to San Antonio that night. The couple I drove up with and I shared a room and the lady liked me, and I liked her back, but that's rock n roll and another story....

I was also born and raised in Jax. I remember my friends and I listening to Skynyrd and .38 Special while riding in someone's car going who knows where. Those were the days!

@@kevin-jg5nq hey I’m probably much younger being born in 86’, but my daddy blasted Classic Rock from since I was born until he died in 2016. I have the most fond memories of riding around with my father in his father’s old beat up pick up and listening to classic rock. Nothing better than that!

@@tinydancer867 Amen! I still do it today. Well, not in an old pick-up truck but the music is the same!

thanks donna you always showing support im so glad to have you here

Me too! It truly is all I want for him. Be a Simple Man.

You’re a good mom. If we put a lot of good moms together, and they have families...and if we put them all together and we have neighborhoods, and put them all together and we have cities. That’s how it goes, we’d all be better off with moms in charge.

Yea definitely a song of the times... there's so many foreshadowing songs they wrote

I love that song !

Written by the late, great J.J. Cale. He wrote many great songs covered by, among others, Eric Clapton

Not even cose to the original. This one hit deep in the soul

1977-10-20 is the date of the crash. Smoked a big ole fatty and wish their Souls well when I heard the news. Lordy how I miss them.

May he rest in peace🙏

Jacksonville 's Finest. Lived there many years and was married in Jax. RIP to all Skynard Souls. 😇

Or “Gimme Three Steps.” It’s a classic, too.

Yessssss!!!