Sheryl Crow - We Ought to Be Drinkin'
Sheryl Crow - We Ought to Be Drinkin'


Sheryl Crow - We Ought to Be Drinkin' Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Feels Like Home
Released: 2013

We Ought to Be Drinkin' Lyrics


We Ought to Be Drinkin'
  • Crow considers this song about boozy nights at home to be a sister song to her breakthrough hit, "All I Wanna Do." "My first big song was about sitting in a bar, drinking, and it had pedal steel in it from the very beginning to the very end," she said. "So 'We Ought to Be Drinkin' is kind of the laid-back post-cursor to that song. If that's a word."
  • The acoustic guitar melody that starts the song is an intentional nod to Bobbie Gentry's 1967 "Ode To Billie Joe."
  • Crow did her own whistling on the song.
  • The song finds Crow singing about getting "a little rowdy," "s---faced" and "(roll[ing) a big fat blunt."

    "It's like 'If It Makes You Happy,"' she told The Daily Telegraph, before quoting the 1996 single's lines with a laugh, "'I still get stoned … I'm not the kind of girl you'd take home' … I'm still the same person!"