Grow Some Funk of Your Own

Single infobox
Name = Grow Some Funk of Your Own


Artist = Elton John
from Album = "Rock of the Westies"
B-side = "I Feel Like a Bullet (In the Gun of Robert Ford)"
Released = January 12, 1976
Genre = Hard Rock, Heavy Metal
Length = 4:16 (single version)
4:48 (album version)
Label = MCA (US/Canada) DJM Records
Writer = Elton John, Davey Johnstone, Bernie Taupin
Producer = Gus Dudgeon
Chart position =

#14 (U.S. Pop)

Last single = "Island Girl"
(1975)
This single = "Grow Some Funk of Your Own"/"I Feel Like a Bullet (In the Gun of Robert Ford)"
(1976)
Next single = "Don't Go Breaking My Heart"
(1976)

"Grow Some Funk of Your Own" is the name of a song by Elton John. It was released as a single in 1976 and comes from his album "Rock of the Westies". It shared its A-Side status with "I Feel Like a Bullet (In the Gun of Robert Ford)". The song is considered to be one of John's heavier rock songs. The song went to #14 on the Billboard Hot 100. Although the singles chart listed only "Funk" and not "Bullet", the latter song was given equal billing in later "Billboard" singles chart books.

Music

This is one of Elton's hard rock songs in the tradition of "Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)", "All the Girls Love Alice", "The Bitch is Back" and "Pinball Wizard". It also appeared on "Greatest Hits Volume II" in 1977. Like the fore-mentioned songs, it's "riff driven" and features a prevalent guitar lick throughout, in the same manner as Love Lies Bleeding. Tellingly, guitarist Davey Johnstone is credited as a co-writer.

ynposis

The song is about a guy who wakes up after a bad dream entailing an episode set in Mexico, where the protagonist (presumably either Elton or Bernie) falls for a young lady in a small town but is dismissed by her boyfriend, telling him to return to where he came from (hence the lyric, "Take my advice/take the next flight/and grow your funk/grow your funk at home"). [http://www.eltonography.com/songs/grow_some_funk_of_your_own.html]