ZZ Top- I Thank You (lyrics)

[@michaelraftice1230]

This is the baddest ass ZZ Top album of all time. This is right in between the 70's really bluesy Texas stuff and the over produced pop of later days. This album brings back great memories of 1980.

[@frogwashwright9796]

Deguello, absolutely

[@jplew138]

You right 😉

[@lisabenneett4735]

I was 15, and my older boyfriend would play this for me as we cruised around in his El Camino. Ahh, the memories..

[@sharonhampton4698]

When my sis was 15, she had an older boyfriend (25 yrs), and he would sing this song to her when a bunch of us were over, hanging out. Teenage girls and older guys... Some were our age. 😊

[@Thestockxj96]

​@@sharonhampton4698wtf.

[@frogwashwright9796]

Fine taste in music & vehicles

[@MentalRetard74]

​@@sharonhampton469825 and 15 is fucked up

[@dirksquatthrust8243]

Dear Lord - I grew up listening to these 3 young men (then) and 3 other young men (Rush) in my teen years. I thank you for putting these amazing humans on the planet to help me grow up. Rest in peace Dusty. Your impact on countless lives is something people dream of being able to do. You made our lives better.

[@jfloresmac]

3 other guys too, The Police. Just sayin'

[@devinthierault]

@@jfloresmac cream

[@jfloresmac]

Emerson, Lake and Palmer...

[@jfloresmac]

Nirvana ZzTop Soda Stereo (the best spanish speaking band in history, way up there with the best in english)

[@terrymuzy7772]

STOP with the comparisons! That's not what Dirk was getting at...Please for once...Focus!

[@fdawg42]

Thank you Dusty Hill 1949-2021, RIP

[@rickeyhill706]

Had tickets to see them Sunday night ;(

[@hammondeggerson2667]

I grew up with ZZ. Much love, Dusty.

[@hammondeggerson2667]

@@rickeyhill706 That sucks. Me gonna buy 25 lighters for my dresser in honor

[@charlesmartin9790]

I was about to take my girl to go see them but dusty died r.i.p

[@danseth7451]

Wait Dusty Hill died? Fuck

[@aarronwootton]

The ever smooth, ever cool ZZ Top. Thank you Dad for raising me on this music.

[@JimMacDougall-r6i]

2 Wheels and I ride alone

[@daviddemaria3982]

That riff grabbed me from day 1. The chord change right after "but you did...". Killer

[@firstnamelast5246]

This song reminds me of my girlfriend when I was in my early twenties. Man was she gorgeous. Every man wanted her and she was all mine. She passed away a couple years back , in her late forties, still an angel. I miss her dearly. Still and always loved you Andie. I thank you.

[@michaelcantral8910]

Real talk brother may she rest in peace

[@sidneyb3337]

She is resting in peace.. Trish baby this me talking to you as I speak because I know you hear me

[@garyblanchard8570]

Truly sorry

[@dianacrow7509]

Prayers~

[@dawnhoke3198]

Sweet❤

[@johncarr1647]

I've been listening to you'll for about 50 years and I still find inspiration and always have fun when I'm listening

[@DavidGregory-qw4ws]

Never gets old

[@frogwashwright9796]

Went to very few concerts as a youngster but ZZ TOP was one of them. Didn’t disappoint! I Thank Them

[@amirhojabr7336]

ZZ Top one of the greatest American R&R bands has been so underrated .

[@j.alexander4948]

Where they underrated at?? They've sold like a hundred million albums world wide and everyone loves them. Never heard anyone say they weren't great

[@ryansmurda1552]

Underrated? They are widely recognized as one of the greatest rock bands ever.

[@gregs5434]

Thank you, Dusty. Heavens band is in for a treat.

[@MrBrick216]

Jamming this in my garage rn drinking beer and grilling. 🍻

[@truthsaid2799]

Grillin and chillin . ENJOY BRO

[@nightshade-o7g]

As you should. Maybe take some Kush rips before you eat too?

[@shshshaw1984]

America 🤜🤛🍻

[@reginafromtexas2314]

Rest in peace, Dusty. I want to thank YOU for all of the great music over the years! You'll be missed.

[@JoseCruz-jt5ux]

I'm 65 years young. I saw them back in 73. Always a fan, one of my favorite bands. Love all of there songs, but that groove they hit for the last minute or so is so frickin tight and sexy(that's the only way to describe it) I wish it lasted for an Xtra 20-30 minutes. God Bless them always!

[@DanielRisacher]

Written by David Porter and Isaac Hayes originally recorded by Sam & Dave, released in early 1968. The single was Sam & Dave's final release on Stax Records, reaching #9 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart and #4 on the R&B chart. ZZ Top covered the song on their 1979 album Degüello. The band released the song as a single the next year. Like the original, it too charted, reaching #34 on the singles chart, becoming the band's second Top 40 hit (after "Tush", four years earlier).

[@JohnJohnson-dd7cm]

Your absolutely right.....👍

[@gib59er56]

The Sam & Dave original is great!! I recorded a concert that was played on "The King Biscuit Flour Hour" on WPLJ here in New York back in 1980. It was ZZ in concert supporting the Deguello album and they opened with this. I was 13 and had a cheap stereo, but I could tell how loud they were. It sounded like their amps were gonna explode man!! I still kick myself in the ass for never catching them live. I have seen more shows than I can ever count, it is easily near 150-200. The 80`s alone was a concert nearly every week!

[@philliprawlinson8228]

And I thank you👍. Well done❤

[@abitupthehudson]

ZZ didn't have to do it like my brothers did, but they did, but they did and I THANK YOU. I haven't been a big fan of ZZ, but I approve of this message. It's not about who does it better. It's about supporting a theme and offering a different version. I know my brothers appreciated this from ZZ. Keep on rocking ZZ with more than six thousand likes.

[@bryanjeske6856]

Thank-you ZZ Top for all the great party tunes 😁🍺👍

[@Purple_HippieGirl]

So many great memories jamming to your bad ass music. You did Texas proud... and I THANK YOU. Rest easy, Dusty. 🍻

[@summerpenrod1426]

My fiance passed away in Oct '23. He used to always send me this song❤😢 Miss you so much hun.

[@bugvswindshield]

I remember being in a small town in eastern Washington state. I believe around 1980-81.Being a young teen , in my room listening to the only FM radio station I could pick up. They would play new rock and roll at night. I heard this song and my jaw dropped. "WHAT THE HOLLY &^%* IS THIS STUFF!!!!!!?????" " this aint abba or hank jr" . So fkn heavy..sooo groovy...so not what I had ever heard. I was amazed it was legal for the station to play this. Yes I was hooked from the first 30 seconds. Got me into "hard rock and blues" for , well around 40 years now.

[@bugvswindshield]

oh and...to those of us old enough. Now a days a bad storm and radio station fizzles out in the boonies. I remember to old FM dial and I could sometimes "pull in" a far away station. sigh...can't do that any more.

[@paulgianni6218]

Great band! These humanitarians work with a non-profit group "Veterans Matter" to house homeless veterans. WONDERFUL human beings!

[@jimmiekimwright2918]

Yes

[@dalekidd8431]

Very worthwhile, 1976 thru 1982 U. S. Navy!!!☯️

[@kyleshiflet9952]

@Andrew Callaway true brother

[@gunsmoke6230]

@@dalekidd8431 USN 89-95 AO3 VF1

[@dalekidd8431]

@@gunsmoke6230 Thank you for your service my brother!🇺🇸

[@howardhankerson294]

Represents Texas to the max. RIP Dusty. You are and will be missed my brother.

[@chuckfinley6156]

very smooth bass line. lyrics are priceless.

[@veroniquesalvador6905]

Merci Dusty pour tous ces merveilleux moments ! Mes sincères condoléances à la famille à tes amis ! ☀️🌻💛🌈✨✨✨

[@howardhankerson294]

Dusty, you will never be forgotten. I thank you.

[@brianhrobsky9200]

Rest Easy Dusty. And Thank You, for making great music

[@muffs55mercury61]

In memory of Dusty Hill who passed away today 7/28/2021. The best song to give tribute to the one who loves you especially if you were down in the dumps before that.

[@davidroberts8410]

My younger brother died the same day but 2020

[@angelwalkyr]

This band rocks! One of their best songs ever ❤

[@JohnJohnson-dd7cm]

Not their song

[@JohnJohnson-dd7cm]

It was written by Sam and Dave in January 8 1968....they just stole it

[@angelwalkyr]

A great cover then!

[@ronaldheit196]

I absolutely love this song. It reflects exactly how I feel about my Bebita Colombiana Wife Maria Heit. Every morning I thank God he sent her to me 4 months after I woke up from a Coma on Christmas Eve day. The second time I woke up from a Coma on Christmas. The first one on Christmas day. The second one 40 years later. We were married a year and a half later on the 4th of July. 18 years now and our love is still going strong. PS, she has saved my life 3 times since we met.

[@patriciajohnson6653]

Sounds like she's a keeper. Congratulations.

[@Jeff-hy1eb]

Louie Caliendo had it right below. I just finished listening to the Sam and Dave version, which isn't, in my opinion, even half as cool as the ZZ Top rework. Thank you, ZZ top, for recording a great love song.

[@sexandskateandrocknroll4741]

I love this song so much. The guitar riffs and licks are the coolest ever... and the lyrics are fantastic.

[@blakeedwards6519]

Check out The Powdermonkeys version my dude

[@lisalee6155]

Now I understand why all those people were upset when Elvis passed RIP Goat!

[@Jeff-hy1eb]

I think I first heard this song back in the 90s. I liked it then, and I first started listening to Tres Hombres in 1974, when I was just 14. Anyhow, I've been lucky enough to find a great-looking woman who actually cares about me. This song has been running through my mind every since I met her. I think these boys just about said it all when it comes to the way a man feels when his woman gets heated up enough to let her sexual energy out. Thank you, ZZ Top, for writing a great love song.

[@peteyn.y.7960]

This is a song I somehow heard very few times but was just on my local rock station!! I love it!! 😎💪🇺🇸

[@MegaJetJaguar]

Thank You for all of the great music, ZZ Top!

[@madisonsamjuel]

Loved this band, still with me all these years later....I"am bad, I am Nation wide

[@lcchristensen9322]

My favorite group as a teenager....thank you.

[@lisafury419]

OH YA! Saw these fine gents in concert! 💋

[@genebingle1754]

Lisa Fury me too back in the 80s and I got tix to their 50th anniversary tour show I’m St Augustine FL next week and I’m beyond stoked!

[@sandyhall1010]

I cannot stop playing this song! I am addicted. Thanks guys for your great work!!!!

[@JohnJohnson-dd7cm]

All they did was steal this tune from Sam and Dave in January 8 1968....it's not their song

[@bobbichin2621]

@@JohnJohnson-dd7cm it's called a cover, not a theft, and one done exceptionally well in the inimitable style of ZZ Top.

[@Buzzalldrin]

Dusty, Thank you!! RIP Amigo.

[@justinstamper2840]

This could be sang in church... Love those subtle lyrics :D

[@Train-train-h9k]

this must be the coolest song ever.

[@tenacious645]

It really is lol. It's just a smooth ride...That base line keeps the songs pace constant.

[@radar0412]

Wait! That's exactly what I said in 1968 when Sam and Dave released the same song. Dejavue!

[@gasman5698]

Bernie D3000 one of the best songs ever! love the heavy blues guitar. an sexy lyrics!

[@brucedickinson9012]

Bernie D3000 , it's one of em for sure.

[@tflo75]

its on a real short list without a doubt

[@MrAirblown2009]

I've loved these guys music my whole rock and roll life. My parents Debbie and Darrell were in the R&B scene in Dallas back in the days 70's and 80's when I was a kid. They tell me stories about knowing Dusty and Steve Miller and Stevie Ray and Buggs Henderson and jamming with them. The musicians kids would keep each other company while the adults "played" separate at these backyard events and whatnot. My step father taught me music. I couldn't help be inspired watching how good a bass player my father was. Their music would always get the crowd going and that feeling being onstage and doing your job good.....man there is no other feeling like that.

[@DennisBeck-x1i]

One of the most unique voices ever, what a register. RIP Dusty.

[@ADC6828]

You didn’t have to shake it but you did!!! They don’t make music 🎶 like this anymore!!

[@cecilyarbrough1161]

ADC6828 very true

[@if6turnedouttobe9]

Best Comment Award...

[@katweiand3620]

Love it so much. I saw them live. Back in the days

[@if6turnedouttobe9]

@@katweiand3620: They're still great Kat...

[@60panhead1]

only 3 pc band all that music

[@phillipnicewaner4480]

This is one of those tunes that immediately cause the car stereo to crank to max when the radio plays it.

[@dalehooper9413]

U got that rite

[@MMOlivier]

You don’t say

[@bugvswindshield]

most of the time I may crank it up to 10....this song goes to 11. heh.

[@jonathanvega8844]

strpapstraps !()z !h7cf galiusgfa87s fgto8ae7ft z9) ! greek mafia e4urtbv78eqt2o7e4trob7e4to7t48 going to you now ()z !

[@randr10]

It just happens all by itself too. One minute you're driving along minding your own business and all a sudden it's loud as hell and you're rockin' and rollin' like it's 1955 and Muddy Waters himself has taken possession of your mortal soul.

[@joanx9722]

Definitely gets the blood pumping in this one.... always a damn good day with music like this....

[@Jo-si3ot]

Rip Dusty Hill😞 Thank you Dusty😎🤘

[@chuckbrummer7563]

Great Blues and Rock = ZZ Top. Period! The masters

[@markbass354]

I cant believe how good this sounds

[@garyblanchard8570]

Believe it nonetheless. A great song covered well.

[@coffeeblack1057]

Zztop yall had some HITS. And iiiii thaaank you. Lol

[@daleosborn3729]

Perfect comment 👍👍

[@coffeeblack1057]

@@daleosborn3729 you didn't have to say that but you did but you did but you did.... and iii thaank you. Lol.

[@anomaliesandtherealdeal]

Never gets old

[@dianacrow7509]

Popping bass strings, I've always loved this tune. Thank you Brothers. Finding happy hunting grounds, Mr. Hill? They'll love & honor you in Heaven, no doubt. Sorry, sincerely. Prayer in smoke...smudged already. Safe landing Padre'!

[@noahh2338]

Zz top..I want to thank YOU🤘

[@handlethis78]

For odd reasons, I love the guitar solo. Yes, it's simple and short, but it's so uniquely cool.

[@v8powerr771]

Love those subtle lyrics :D

[@kimverbeem7318]

Love the old classic music. Best ever. Awesome talent.

[@franciscolopez5396]

For those about to rock we Salute You !!!

[@sharonhampton4698]

I had to go thru 2 different older versions of this song (that i didnt know existed), b4 i found the right one, by ZZ Top (great in concert), i forgot they sang it..😊

[@Stublinsky]

Some heavy Tejas funk ! Lord Have Mercy !!!!

[@geoman51270]

Sam & Dave Classic. Yes. ZZ Top. Know good when you know good. Oh, and Thank You.

[@kimshultz3582]

One of the great trios- always time for ZZ Top songs-- Side note- This has gotta be the BEST STRIPPER SONG - Think about it

[@miketerry4184]

you didn't have to listen but u did, but u did, but u did, and I THANK U

[@krisibyrd6134]

Creed

[@dirkplankchest1796]

You didn't have bologna, but you did, but you did, but you did have bacon...

[@mleon77]

Thank you Uncle's so great full. Always upmost Respect and love. 🙏🌍🌏🌎

[@eeros4192]

Damn... This is still fine.

[@michaeltaylor1347]

This is the best

[@cynthialynnvalerino6411]

Thank you ZZ Top. You got the message STRAIGHT from ME! 😱🙈🙉🙊

[@davidtaylor524]

Hi Cynthia,hope you’re okay ?

[@ameliao9748]

I love all the adults commenting cuz it’s an old song but imma child and this is my hecking jam bro, not bc it was promoted on A Dogs Purpose, but bc I like music that doesn’t repeat and just use “what,aye,yuh”, this...this is the quality stuff right here. Much love for this band

[@richardglazebrook3756]

1 of my favorite bands

[@lucasrivera6074]

Same along with AC/DC, Motley Crue, Metallica, and Dire Straits

[@jerryhawthornejr.4261]

ZZ TOP IS ONE OF THE GREATEST EVER

[@lenorejohnson5428]

Rest in peace, Dusty. Godspeed ~£

[@AcidHead710]

God damn that bass is on fire

[@filice741]

Best Guitar Ever! I Love ZZ Top ❤

[@chancemcgyver8172]

That cow bell really brings it home .

[@davidjames4267]

I love my zz top. You guys help me keep going. David James West, a Christian man

[@Daniel-o4g4y]

Thanks for your Great music man 👍😎✌️🥃

[@darrylcole7869]

(RIP) Dusty...Thank you...!!!

[@corycole8395]

RIP Dusty Hill 🤘 loved by many so hard of a day never forgotten

[@intfstft]

😭🤘🙏✌👍☝👏👏👏👏Dusty R.I.P. AND THANK YOU !❤

[@justinmathewson3692]

I love how ZZ Top made the lyrics more perverted than the Sam and Dave original, however subtlety it may be. ZZ has to be the most perverted Classic Rock band ever!! Pearl Necklace, Tush, Tube Snake Boogie etc

[@rolfmenzen5692]

😎

[@castle4610]

Slip inside my sleeping bag...

[@neverafter6634]

Merci beaucoup Monsieur!

[@loopsky]

RIP and Thank You Dusty

[@vichy7661]

Prolly couple thousand listening to ZZ Top Sametime I do.

[@Girl-fk1wf]

RIP Dusty you rocked it….

[@andreomally9392]

Love this song

[@abcJ22]

wonderful band, wonderful music. Thanx ZZ Top

[@josephgangloff9466]

ZZ TOP is always been bad ass!!!

[@isdamanjeff]

Who the hell dislikes this song? Jeez people are unreasonable.

[@vintagesound5847]

I love this riff

[@SuperAnimelover100]

Me too .:)

[@gordonhard2878]

Originally a Sam and Dave song....Top does some real justice here

[@jimmiekimwright2918]

Yes

[@kyleighalena8395]

Still great music

[@mr.howell4918]

Kyleigh Alena And Eye Thank you

[@michaelzengen82]

RIP Dusty! Thank you.

[@larryzammit2269]

Fyi, best Thanksgiving song!!

[@lifeofreilly9943]

🎶💯

[@hopekennedy1862]

Thank you for what did. You didn't have to but you did and I thank you. RIP Dusty Hill

[@thejman63]

Went to go see them in Florida will never forget the chance to see them 2012 were amazing at Universal

[@jasonraser40]

Thanks your majesty.

[@Axl_colts]

Man..... Back when music was actually good.....I miss it.

[@Pamela_In_Chains]

Love Z.Z. Top 💕

[@heatherlynn3560]

love it!!!!

[@bradmiller9507]

These Guys helped Me, Grow Up! Viva Tejas! & Where Is The X?

[@VONNRIOT]

Best ZZ IMO