I'm Gonna Crawl

Song infobox
Name = I'm Gonna Crawl


Artist = Led Zeppelin
Album = In Through the Out Door
Released = August 15, 1979
track_no = 7
Recorded = November-December, 1978
Genre = Hard rock
Length = 5:30
Label = Swan Song
Writer = Jones/Page/Plant
Producer = Jimmy Page
prev = "All My Love"
prev_no = 6
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next_no = "I'm Gonna Crawl" is a song on English rock band Led Zeppelin's 1979 album, "In Through the Out Door". It was composed by John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant.

Heavily influenced by the American 1960s soul-blues style of Otis Redding and Wilson Pickett, the music to "I'm Gonna Crawl" was in large part composed by Led Zeppelin bass player John Paul Jones.Dave Lewis (1994), "The Complete Guide to the Music of Led Zeppelin", Omnibus Press, ISBN 0-7119-3528-9.] The song tells of a girl that "drives me crazy... she's the apple of my eye. I love the lady. I got to be her fool." However, Plant's passionate delivery, as well as the line "Every little bit of my love," is actually in tribute to his son Karac, who died in 1977.Fact|date=April 2008

"I'm Gonna Crawl" was never performed live at Led Zeppelin concerts.Dave Lewis (1994), "The Complete Guide to the Music of Led Zeppelin", Omnibus Press, ISBN 0-7119-3528-9.]

John Bonham noted this as one of Robert Plant's best vocal performances.Fact|date=November 2007

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