Hello, Okay, I'm a Yankee, but I don't THINK I'm hearing something wrong on the original version of "Gimme Three Steps" on the live "One From The Road" album, but maybe someone can straighten me out!

About 2/3s of the way through the guitar solo (The break after he asks the crowd "Can He Play?!"), Ronnie Van Zant says, I SWEAR,

"Bring on My MULE'S HAT, here!"

Am i WAY off? And if not, WHAT is a Mule's Hat and where can I get one?

Thanks!

Fred Swan

I think you will find Ronnie is refering to Gary Steve Allen & Leon as his mules because JVZ makes the same reference and just like magic everyone with an axe in their hands stands front and centre stage ,looks real cool. Hope i am right and if i am not some body please say. Please see avatar photo as this was the mules during gimme three steps at Cardiff 2010, i got a few decent shots before they seperated but this is my favourite

The Album is Called one More From the Road if I am not mistaken......... Dang Yankees lol

So LynSkyn 1981 am i right in saying what i said is he refering to the guitarists

Mules referred to the workers of the band. He used the word "mules" a lot. Kick em' one time was a way of telling them to step it up. I love Ronnie's ad libs. Ronnie worked the stage like a master. I like when Artie said he "stalked the stage"

I thank ya just might have a speaker blown ther my frynd......................... I aint never heard nuthin bout a " mules hat" ................... Ya might ask H7 ............. He be tha mule man"LOL

I think the problem is a combination of "Yankee ears" and "Southern Drawl". I always hear it as "bring all my mules out here". The word "out" is being misinterpreted. That being said, my "Yankee ears" mistook the "boo, boo, boo" in SHA for "boom, boom, boom" (as in the governor being shot) for years. I'm sure I've got the timing wrong; the song was probably written before Wallace was shot, but there you are. Sometimes you hear a thing all wrong. And then someone ends up offended, often as not.

I think you're right! My Yankee ears heard "hat" when he says "out", as in "Bring on my mules out here"! Give'er a listen and you might see how I screwed it up! Thanks for the insights, all of you!

Now THIS might up the ante, but I ALSO have an Idea what he says when he ad libs after,

"And this might be all for you! I said excuuuuse me"

He THEN says something that might get this Yankee kicked off of this board, cuz it's pretty nasty! I wouldn't be surprised if this has been discussed many time before, haha!

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If were listening to the same quote (something to do with the british i presume) . Yeah i am English,but the song still kicks ass

Johnny said the same thing when the band played on the Jerry Lewis telethon!

He said something in effect : Like the great Ronnie Van Zant once said, bring my mules out-