# Vote for your favorite Lynyrd Skynyrd song. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 27, 2016, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-your-favorite-lynyrd-skynyrd-song/764205 "2016-08-27T23:00:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2016, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-your-favorite-lynyrd-skynyrd-song/764205/1 "2016-08-27T23:00:11Z")
I’ll apologize now. I know the poll could have 14 choices and I’d still end up omitting someone’s personal favorite. 🆒 Lynyrd Skynyrd is such an incredible Southern Rock band. I can’t imagine a Saturday night without a [Long neck Busch beer](https://s3-media4.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/hPVTGE-nVLBJZKK27kBb6g/o.jpg) and Skynyrd blasting out of my speakers. Why, yes I’m doing that right now. 😃 Damn, I love me some Skynyrd. \*\*Your choices… \*\* Ballad Of Curtis Lowe Freebird Gimmie Three Steps Saturday Night Special Simple Man Sweet Home Alabama Tuesdays Gone ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2016, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-your-favorite-lynyrd-skynyrd-song/764205/2 "2016-08-27T23:11:18Z")
My Vote? I’m conflicted between the power chords in _Simple Man_ and the character imagery of _The Ballad of Curtis Lowe_ Great Lyrics and story won out. The Ballad of Curtis Lowe got my vote for my favorite Skynyrd song. But I love every song in the poll. > [@](#): > > Well I used to wake the mornin > Befor the rooster crowed > Searchin for soda bottles to get my self some dough > Brought em down to the corner > Down to the country store > Cash em in and give my money to a man named Curtis Lowe > Old Curt was a black man with white curly hair > When he had a fifth of wine he didnot have a care > He used to own and old dobro used to play across his knee > I’d give old Curt my money he play all day for me ---
**Author:** ![zoog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7ea924/32.png) [@zoog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoog)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2016, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-your-favorite-lynyrd-skynyrd-song/764205/3 "2016-08-27T23:13:54Z")
I’ll go with Gimme Three Steps of their original tunes, however my favorite song that I’ve heard them do is an old Jimmie Rodgers tune, T For Texas. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2016, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-your-favorite-lynyrd-skynyrd-song/764205/4 "2016-08-27T23:36:37Z")
> [@zoog](#): > > I’ll go with Gimme Three Steps of their original tunes, however my favorite song that I’ve heard them do is an old Jimmie Rodgers tune, T For Texas. Skynyrd did an awesome live cover of _T for Texas_ I’ll always wonder what might have been if the original band had recorded and performed another ten years. The songs they would have written. sigh. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2016, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-your-favorite-lynyrd-skynyrd-song/764205/5 "2016-08-27T23:56:16Z")
When I saw the thread, I was certain that my vote was going to have to go to “other”. I was pleasantly surprised to be able to cast a vote for _The Ballad of Curtis Lowe_. Simple Man would be an easy second choice…apparently the OP and I are ‘Skynyrd Bros’ 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-your-favorite-lynyrd-skynyrd-song/764205/6 "2016-08-28T00:02:58Z")
I love _Tuesday’s Gone_. I wasn’t expecting it to be on the list. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-your-favorite-lynyrd-skynyrd-song/764205/7 "2016-08-28T00:18:20Z")
Tuesday’s Gone for me, too, but of the ones listed, I went with a popular one: Sweet Home Alabama. Any song that namechecks the Swampers of Muscle Shoals is good by me. (Though it does have that Neil Young dig…) ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-your-favorite-lynyrd-skynyrd-song/764205/8 "2016-08-28T00:23:28Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Tuesday’s Gone for me, too, but of the ones listed… “Tuesday’s Gone” was listed. > [@pulykamell](#): > > Sweet Home Alabama. Any song that namechecks the Swampers of Muscle Shoals is good by me. (Though it does have that Neil Young dig…) Neil Young loved that bit. ---
**Author:** ![tenacious\_j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@tenacious\_j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tenacious_j)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-your-favorite-lynyrd-skynyrd-song/764205/9 "2016-08-28T00:27:32Z")
I really only know the more popular songs. Voted for Tuesday’s Gone because it’s so pretty it could have been done by the Allmans instead. Sweet Home Alabama is one of those songs that is great in and of itself, but they play the shit out of it on every radio station, bar, and party you go to, so I don’t appreciate it like I should. ---
**Author:** ![Fuji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@Fuji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuji)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-your-favorite-lynyrd-skynyrd-song/764205/10 "2016-08-28T01:17:49Z")
_Saturday Night Special_ for me. That song just oozes menace. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-your-favorite-lynyrd-skynyrd-song/764205/11 "2016-08-28T01:42:56Z")
Gary Rossington is the last original member that’s still alive. short interview avout how Sweet Home Alabama got written. > **[Sole living original member of Lynyrd Skynyrd shares story behind 'Sweet Home...](https://yellowhammernews.com/sole-living-original-member-of-lynyrd-skynyrd-shares-story-behind-sweet-home-alabama/)** > > Forty-three years after Lynyrd Skynyrd burst onto the scene with their self-titled debut album — and just under four decades since a tragic plane crash killed three of their original members — the southern rock icons’ most famous songs remain among... ---
**Author:** ![Graymalkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@Graymalkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Graymalkin)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-your-favorite-lynyrd-skynyrd-song/764205/12 "2016-08-28T01:59:38Z")
Call Me the Breeze (JJ Cale song) done by LynSky is one of the truly great blues-boogie songs of all time! Love them lead guitar fills! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-your-favorite-lynyrd-skynyrd-song/764205/13 "2016-08-28T02:33:09Z")
_Simple Man_ without a second thought. (Btw, if you’re a big Skynerd, you should see episode 8 of season 1, and so far only, of _Roadies_. Not sure how true-to-life the story is, but it’s written by Cameron Crowe, so there might be a germ or three of truth there. And there’s a nice version of _Simple Man_ in it too.) ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-your-favorite-lynyrd-skynyrd-song/764205/14 "2016-08-28T03:26:38Z")
Had to go with Sweet Home Alabama. Any song (really anybody) that dises Neil Young is all right with me. Dises? Disses? Whatever. You get the idea. ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-your-favorite-lynyrd-skynyrd-song/764205/15 "2016-08-28T03:49:18Z")
_Sweet Home Alabama_ for me. Because every time it comes on the radio and tells me “Turn it up”, I do! ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-your-favorite-lynyrd-skynyrd-song/764205/16 "2016-08-28T05:12:38Z")
I had to answer the unappealing “Don’t like this band” because you gave me no other option to select. The only Lynryd Skynyrd song that threatens the health of my speakers is their cover of JJ Cale’s [Call Me The Breeze](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9wBpmZn9nA). It’s 12 bar bass line might not be the most complex or adventurous, but it’s smooth and easy. The rest of the band is in their best form. Good luck, speakers! ---
**Author:** ![4d3fect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/4d3fect/32/9728_2.png) [@4d3fect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/4d3fect)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-your-favorite-lynyrd-skynyrd-song/764205/17 "2016-08-28T05:19:35Z")
Meh. Used to love 'em 'til I saw them live. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-your-favorite-lynyrd-skynyrd-song/764205/18 "2016-08-28T05:56:30Z")
Honorable mention to Gimme Three Steps. One of the funnier songs in history. I said, “Excuse me…” ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-your-favorite-lynyrd-skynyrd-song/764205/19 "2016-08-28T06:49:39Z")
> [@Peremensoe](#): > > Neil Young loved that bit. Well, to paraphrase Komar and Melamid when they referenced the [Bulldozer Exhibition](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulldozer_Exhibition), “At least we know we touched someone”. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-your-favorite-lynyrd-skynyrd-song/764205/20 "2016-08-28T08:25:19Z")
> [@Peremensoe](#): > > “Tuesday’s Gone” was listed. Oopsie. Somehow glossed over it on my phone. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-your-favorite-lynyrd-skynyrd-song/764205.md?page=2)