2006-08-11 18:33:56 · 10 answers · asked by ckeuler 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
There was a group named "Canned Heat".
The Guess Who had an album called "Canned Wheat" and the song you're wanting is on that album.
P.S. The Guess Who's lead singer was Burton Cummings who is alive and well and was never in Lynyrd Skynyrd, lol. Not all the members of Lynyrd Skynyrd perished in the plane crash, and they are still performing - including 2 of the original band members: Billy Powell and Gary Rossington. See links below for group info.
Friends of Mine - The Guess Who Lyrics
(Bachman/Cummings)
Friends of mine don't have the time
For food or wine
Just money is on their minds
Life is sweet
On a one-way street
They're indiscrete
And funny, they'll never meet
B-bay-b-bay-b-bay-b-bay-bay-baby...
I gotta get a two-ton truck
I gotta get a two-ton truck
I gotta get a two-ton truck
I gotta get a two-ton truck
I gotta do it to a duck on a two-ton truck and fade away like Ron Rene
All right, all right
You got the magical mystery tour
You got the magical mystery tour
You got the magical mystery tour
You got the magical mystery tour
And Kurt is the Walrus
And Kurt is the Walrus
And the Walrus does funny things to the veins in his left arm
All right
And Michael is now a father, all right
And Michael is now a proud father, all right
And my good friend Michael is now a proud father
And Michael is now a father, all right
And that means Michael's wife is a mother, all right
Up the 13 steps of the gallows walked the condemned man
And time passes very quickly when death is near
After having completed the first step, the condemned man knew there were but 12 left
Before he would meet death and his soul would leave his body
And after having completed the 13 steps the condemned man was met by a giant cloaked figure
And with a quick flick of the wrist the man was dead
And his soul left his body and went down down down
To a place we laughingly refer to as hell
But none of us will ever go there because we're all far too groovy
The man's body was left to rot on the gallows
And a great multitude of black birds came and picked the man's corpse apart
Piece by piece
Limb by limb
Until nothing remained
And his blood melted into the ground below
The gallows was made from a tree created by God
The man's blood dripped into the ground which was created by God
Even the giant cloaked figure which was the man's own end was created by God
Even the man's soul which went down was created by God
Even the black birds which picked the man's corpse apart were created by God
and where was God?
In Flanders Fields the poppies grow
between the crosses row on row
to mark the dead
To Flanders Fields the hippies go
to smoke the poppies there below
and feed their heads
And they're all friends of mine, each and every one of them, no better or no worse
And we'll probably end up down there together when it's all over
And that's why we say
b-bay-b-bay-b-bay-b-bay-b-baby ...
It's all over and it's all right.
2006-08-11 18:37:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all its not Canned Wheat but Canned Heat, meaning a tank of liquefied petroleum gas. They were a forerunner of heavy metal music. They did not record "13 steps of the gallows". It was recorded by the group The Guess Who titled "Friends of Mine". A narration in the middle of the songs goes, "up the 13 steps to the gallows walks the condemned man " or words to that effect. The Guess Who by the way disbanded after the death of their lead vocalist but regrouped later as the immortal Lynnrd Skynnrd, now defunct due to a plane crash where all of the members perished.
2006-08-11 18:41:30 · answer #2 · answered by ruben 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Try Canned Heat
2006-08-11 18:40:21 · answer #3 · answered by Susie 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Album name is "Canned Wheat" it is by "The Guess Who" in 1998 I think. Hope this helps.
http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,96670,00.html
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Opps, I have a typo 1969!!!! Ha!
2006-08-11 18:46:17 · answer #4 · answered by Snaglefritz 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Canned Wheat?? Are you sure it's not Canned Heat?
2006-08-11 21:04:35 · answer #5 · answered by starrynight1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Canned Heat??
2006-08-11 18:35:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I remember a band called "Canned Heat?"
2006-08-11 18:35:54 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Maybe "Canned Heat" featuring Bob "the bear" Hite????
2006-08-11 18:35:57 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I beleive that is 'Canned Heat' not wheat.
2006-08-11 18:36:28 · answer #9 · answered by angus1745 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Its 'Canned Heat' man... That might help
2006-08-11 18:36:23 · answer #10 · answered by branflakes 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋