Sly & The Family Stone. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)

If there was one album from my childhood in to preteen time that had the most influence on me (not the one I listened to the most, but the most influential...) it was Sly and The Family Stone's Greatest Hits.  By the time, at age 11 or so, that I got my hands on mom's record collection several of their songs were already familiar from radio air so what I distinctly remember is the first time I heard this song.  It felt right.  I didn't know it til recently but Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again) was originally released as a bonus on that record, and it quickly became my fave because of how true it resonated with me, and equally important: because of how the song was titled with its unique spelling.  This was an early prompt to me of the freedom within language of self-expression, silly as it seems.  But isn't that it anyway--what's so very great about this song, too...