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ZZ Top Setlist for the Sharp Dressed Simple Man Tour

By Matty Cord and Colin Newby

ZZ Top and Lynyrd Skynyrd will perform as the headliners at MGK’s Big Gig 2023 as part of the Sharp Dressed Simple Man Tour.

The annual celebration of Philly’s best classic rock station will take place at Freedom Mortgage Pavilion on the Camden Waterfront on September 17, 2023. Tickets are on sale now to see the tour’s only stop in the Philadelphia area.

ZZ Top

“That Little Ol’ Band From Texas” formed in 1969, and they exploded four years later with the release of Tres Hombres featuring hits like “La Grange” and “Waitin’ For The Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago.”

Eliminator in 1983 featured some of their most recognizable hits like “Gimme All Your Lovin’” and “Sharp Dressed Man.”

When you think of ZZ Top, you probably picture a bunch of impressively groomed beards and fine-tuned automobiles. Billy Gibbons has the rock star look about him, and he’ll certainly rock the stage at Big Gig like it’s still the 1970s.

The Sharp Dressed Simple Man Tour

The two Rock & Roll giants have begun the cleverly-named “Sharp Dressed, Simple Man Tour.” The name is an homage to one hit single from each of the two bands.  Their first tour together will include stops in 22 cities in the United States. They’ll save the best for last, as MGK Big Gig will be their final show.

ZZ Top and Lynyrd Skynyrd, with special guest Uncle Kracker, kicked off the tour on Friday, July 21 at the iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach, Florida. The setlists from both bands included some of their biggest hits. However, they also did an excellent job of mixing in some of their lesser-known work.

Their trip to Freedom Mortgage Pavilion in September will continue a tradition that’s become the signature event of 102.9 WMGK.

Take a peek at the ZZ Top setlist from the tour’s first show to warm up. Then, move over to hear Lynyrd Skynyrd’s setlist next.

  • 1. Got Me Under Pressure

     

    She likes the art museum, she don’t like Pavlov’s dog
    She fun at the mind museum, she likes it in a London fog
    She don’t like other women, she likes whips and chains
    She likes cocaine and filppin’ out with great Danes
    She’s about all I can handle, it’s too much for my brain

  • 2. I Thank You

     

    You didn’t have to shake it but you did
    But you did but you did
    And I thank you.
    You didn’t have to make it like you did
    but you did but you did
    And I thank you.

  • 3. Waitin' For the Bus

     

    Have mercy, old bus be packed up tight
    Well, I’m glad just to get on and home tonight

  • 4. Jesus Just Left Chicago

     

    Took a jump through Mississippi
    Muddy water turned to wine
    Yeah, yeah
    Then out to California through the forests and the pines
    Ah, take me with you, Jesus

  • 5. Gimme All Your Lovin'

     

    Gimme all your lovin’
    All your hugs and kisses too
    Gimme all your lovin’
    Don’t let up until we’re through

  • 6. Pearl Necklace

     

    She was really bombed
    And I was really blown away
    Until I asked her what she wanted
    And this is what she had to say

  • 7. I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide

     

    Well, I was rolling down the road
    In some cold blue steel
    I had a blues man on the back
    And a beautician at the wheel
    We going downtown
    In the middle of the night
    We laughing and I’m joking
    And we feeling alright

  • 8. I Gotsta Get Paid

     

    I got 25 lighters on my dressa, dressa
    You know I gotta get paid
    Zig and me is climbing out 25 doors
    Representing for the doors that holdin’ 25 more

  • 9 My Head's in Mississippi

     

    I keep thinkin’ ’bout that night in Memphis
    I thought I was in Heaven
    But I was stumblin’ thru the parking lot
    Of an invisible seven eleven

  • 10. Sixteen Tons

     

    You load 16 tons, what do you get?
    Another day older and deeper in debt
    St. Peter, don’t you call me ’cause I can’t go
    I owe my soul to the company store

  • 11. Just Got Paid

     

    I should grow up some day ’cause I got bills to pay
    I can’t be waking up at someone else’s place
    I know I drink too much, can’t pay my rent this month
    I should be saving up, but

    I just got paid
    I’m broke, but I’m balling
    Don’t know where we’re going
    We go in when we go out

  • 12. Sharp Dressed Man

     

    Clean shirt, new shoes
    And I don’t know where I am goin’ to
    Silk suit, black tie (black tie)
    I don’t need a reason why
    They come runnin’ just as fast as they can
    ‘Cause every girl crazy ’bout a sharp-dressed man

  • 13. Legs

     

    Every time she’s dancin’, she knows what to do
    Everybody wants to see if she can use it
    She’s so fine, she’s all mine

  • 14. Brown Sugar

     

    My friends, they all told me
    Man, there’s somethin’ gonna change your life
    Gotta have that brown sugar
    Man, it’s just gonna change my life

  • 15. Tube Snake Boogie

     

    I got a gal, she lives on the block
    She kinda funky with her pink and black socks, she likes to boogie
    She do the tube snake boogie

  • 16. La Grange

     

    Rumor spreadin’ ’round
    In that Texas town
    About that shack outside La Grange
    And you know what I’m talkin’ about
    Just let me know if you wanna go
    To that home out on the range
    They got a lot of nice girls

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