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Certain Songs: Al Green – “I’m A Ram”

October 27, 2014 by Jim Connelly

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Album: Al Green Gets Next To You.

Year: 1971.

While he’s best-known for singing ballads so silky smooth you could wear them as nighties, Al Green also kicked out classic Stax soul like the early fucksong “I’m A Ram.”

Over a drumbeat so down and dirty it puts the “FU” into funk, Al just wants you to know two things:

  1. He’s a ram.
  2. He’s gonna get next to you.

Unspoken, but implicit inside every beat, guitar lick and vocal utterance: after getting next to you, Al will then proceed to get over you, get under you and get behind you. And that’s just for starters.

I guess you could call “I’m A Ram” a double entendre, but Al clearly has multiple entendres in mind.

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