#Grand funk railroad i m your captain full#
One day, coming out of a jam that we were working on, we fell into that half time part, and that’s when Mark came up with the lyrics, ‘I’m getting closer to…’ So we had that, and we all felt, ‘Oh man, that’s great, we’ll put that piece together with that, and that’s going to work,’ then we said, ‘What are we going to do from there?’ So we got into the guitar part where it breaks into full time again. For a day or two we worked on this song and it just didn’t go any place, that was about as far as we could get with it. Mark came in one day with basically the beginning of the song, the ‘I’m your captain part.’ We always worked out everything with a jam – he would have an idea, somebody would have an idea for a bass part of whatever, and we’d just kind of work on these things and jam out. We used to work all of our stuff out there. We used to rehearse at a place called The Musicians Union Hall in Flint, Michigan. Don Brewer, in a Songfacts interview, explained: I took it to rehearsal that day and the guys said, ‘Man, this song’s a hit.’ And, lo and behold they were right.Īpproaching the rest of the band, drummer Don Brewer and bassist Mel Schacher, Farner had the “I’m Your Captain” part of the song fairly completed. The idea of extending it came about as they rehearsed it the first few times. 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. 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. 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.
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. He explained to Nightwatcher’s House of Rock: Mark Farner wrote the lyrics of this song before he wrote the music, which was opposite of how he usually composed most of his songs. Nor did the other band members have any real idea of what Farner was getting at Drummer Don Brewer has said, “I think it can mean a lot of different things to a lot of people.” Mark Farner, guitarist and songwriter, himself does not explicitly state what the song is about, and indeed prefers that listeners be able to use their own imaginations when listening to songs in general.
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