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The original.  And not the only JJ Cale song Clapton stole.  Heck he stole JJ's whole sound.  Skynyrd lifted Call Me the Breeze too.  That is a killer cover with Billy Powell playing my favorite piano solo

 

 

 

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7 hours ago, Gray Beard said:

I always thought it was about drugs, but according to Wikipedia it’s written for Fogarty’s three year old son.  

Today I learned something.

 

John was probably the only noted SoCal musician of that era who was drug averse. 

 

I will also accept that John Lodge of the Moody Blues avoided that lifestyle choice, unlike almost every one of his contemporaries from the UK

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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23 hours ago, /dev/null said:

 

 

I used to watch that alot when I was a kid.  When I was a teenager my Mom had made a comment that she played it alot because she liked the song.

 

Well she used to like the song, until I explained to her the song was a euphemism about marijuana.

 

       According to the authors, the words are exactly what they say they are with no attachment to drugs.   It is simply a song about loss of innocence.

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