| Grow Some Funk of Your Own | |
| Cover: | Grow Some Funk of Your Own.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Elton John |
| Album: | Rock of the Westies |
| A-Side: | I Feel Like a Bullet (In the Gun of Robert Ford) (double A-side) |
| Released: | 12 January 1976 |
| Recorded: | June–July 1975 |
| Length: | 4:45 |
| Label: | MCA (US) DJM (UK) |
| Producer: | Gus Dudgeon |
| Prev Title: | Island Girl |
| Prev Year: | 1975 |
| Title2: | I Feel Like a Bullet (In the Gun of Robert Ford) |
| Next Title: | Pinball Wizard |
| Next Year: | 1976 |
"Grow Some Funk of Your Own" is a song by English musician Elton John. It was released as a single in 1976 from the 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 went to No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100, but in Britain broke a five-year run of successful singles by failing to reach the top 50 despite extensive radio play. Guitarist Davey Johnstone is credited as a co-writer.
The song centers on a man who wakes up after a bad dream entailing an episode set in Mexico, where the protagonist (presumably either John or Taupin) 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").
Cash Box called it "a hard-driving rocker which has a part audiences will sing along to and maybe provide another encore to his live show" with "an absolutely frantic ending with the vibraphones receiving the beating of their lives."[1] Record World said that "Elton shows why he's on top with his 'English charm' and an enthusiastic no holds barred rock 'n' roll sound."[2]
. Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles, 14th Edition: 1955–2012 . Joel Whitburn . 2013 . Record Research . 436.