profiles of the people in music An American band : the story of Grand Funk Railroad Tales of the. As I was strumming the intro chords to 'I'm Your Captain,' I went, 'Hey man, maybe this is a song.' So I went and got the words, and started constructing the song out of it. Grand Funk Railroad (Musical group) Contemporary musicians. I was sipping on my coffee, had my feet kicked up in the chair, and I had my flattop guitar. But I grabbed those words in the morning, because I was playing my guitar in the kitchen of the farm. At least we have a place to start putting them together, like a puzzle. In fact, my wife has a file that she has where she's picked up napkins and notes here and there that have all these words that come out. I’ll tell you what made Grand Funk Railroad special to the youth of America, says Billy James, author of the 1999 biography An American Band: The Story of Grand Funk Railroad. It came in the middle of night to me as words, and I didn't even realize it was a song, because I write words all the time. I saw their parents, and I saw their families, and I think that's what inspired it. I just felt for my good friends, my high school buddies who had died in Vietnam. Don Brewer Mark Farner Mel Schacher Bruce Kulick Max Carl Tim Cashion Craig Frost Dennis Bellinger Howard Eddy, Jr. at the end of it, and I asked the Creator to give me a song which would reach and touch the hearts of people that he wanted to touch.

Our mother had taught us kids to pray the 'Now I lay me down to sleep,' so I finished that part of the prayer, and put a P.S.

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