Pop Song 556 of 1000 'Freebird' Lynyrd Skynyrd 1973

Pop Song 556 of 1000 'Freebird' Lynyrd Skynyrd 1973Show more

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Allen Collins's girlfriend, Kathy, whom he later married, asked him, "If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me?" Collins noted the question and it eventually became the opening line of "Free Bird." Also, in an interview filmed during a fishing outing on a boat with Gary Rossington, an interviewer asked Ronnie Van Zant what the song meant. Van Zant replied that in essence, that the song is "what it means to be free, in that a bird can fly wherever he wants to go." He further stated that "everyone wants to be free...that's what this country's all about

If I leave here tomorrow
Would you still remember me?
For I must be traveling on now
'Cause there's too many places I've got to see
But, if I stay here with you, girl
Things just couldn't be the same
'Cause, I'm as free as a bird now
And this bird you cannot change, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
And the bird you cannot change
And this bird you cannot change
Lord knows I can't change
Bye-bye, baby, it's been a sweet love, yeah, yeah
Though this feeling I can't change
But, please, don't take it so badly
'Cause Lord knows I'm to blame
But, if I stay here with you, girl
Things just couldn't be the same
'Cause, I'm as free as a bird now
And this bird you'll never change, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
And the bird you cannot change
And this bird you cannot change
Lord knows I can't change
Lord, help me, I can't cha-a-a-ange
Lord, I can't change
Won't you fly h-i-i-igh, free bird, yeah