Drifter's Wife by J.J. Cale

Location,Location,Location.

Lyrics:
Had me a woman down in Tennessee
Boy she used to love me
Free fever got me and I had to go
I never seen that woman no more
New York City is a place I been
I was there one time with a travellin' band
Young girl there wanted me to stay
I think she wanted me to pay
Roll it out, roll it in
Here we go down the road again
Drifters life is a drifters wife
Don't say I didn't tell you so
Travellin' man now he don't know
Only what he hears on the radio
Politics and money don't bother him
Only good lookin' women and a bottle of gin
Portland, Oregon, to the Mexican line
Boy let me tell you the women are fine
If you don't hang around there very long
They'll never ever know you're gone.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• jj
• cale
• drifter's
• wife
• matan
• acoustic
• cover
• fingerpicking
• finger
• picking

[eblunot]

Make all the faces you want to - I can't hear your face and the sound is good

[Halfadrop]

:D

Thanks for the good words and vibes.

I'll try and work "I can't hear your face" into a song...

[Halfadrop]

Thank you, everyone.

This, I think, is a "perfect" song.

I don't know why, it just feels that way.

[Halfadrop]

Thanks, everyone. I am really grateful, like, really.

[Halfadrop]

Thank you both.

Vamos, you're too sweet. Grazie. : )

[XPiRiMiNT]

Very good! I wish I could finger pick like that. I'd love to be this good.

Good enough to deserve to play in the bathroom...

[biondipepe]

no apologies, this is better than the original version :)

[MultiBert07]

Yes, it does NOT sound the same.

But you play well.

I do NOT agree with cherokee592. This is NOT the best cover. It's a good one. Not the best.

[cherokee592]

This is by far the best cover of this song I can imagine. I've listened to the original since it came out. Very, very good. My nine year old son (!) knows almsot ecery J.J. Cale song, and we watched all the covers here, ... he liked yours the best. And let me tell you, that little boy is an expert when it's about J.J. Cale (he spent weeks now designing J.J. Cale record covers ;-))

[Teitzi]

great work, man! groovin :)

[minkey2007]

inaccurate cover, and you just seem like a huge douche.

[bracavoja]

BRAVO :Odlicno 

[nukulerstrategery]

wonderful !! I nominate this as the best bathroom acoustic song

[bracavoja]

Yeah man - original ,nice. This i s my favorite song . Voja ,

SERBIA

[sveweb]

Yeah man - nice made !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!