What's the best adultery song?

SF Gate ^ | February 02 2007 | Dave Morey

[Stone Mountain]

What's the best adultery song?

In light of current events, KFOG's Dave Morey conducted a contest this morning for the best adultery song ever.

His listeners (of a certain demographic) nominated a bunch, including the Eagles' "Lyin' Eyes," Elvin Bishop's "Fooled Around and Fell in Love," and Derek and the Dominos' "Layla" -- which has the advantage of being about the most famous adulterous affair since, what, Paris and Helen of Troy?

Dave's winner: "Me and Mrs. Jones," by Billy Paul, which isn't much musically but does have lyrics that resonate with people who've got a thing going on.

Even more poignant, though not reflective of the mess at City Hall, there's Whitney Houston's "Saving All My Love For You."

[brazzaville]

Good afternoon.
"Hey Joe by Jimi Hendrix."

Arthur Lee and Love did "Hey Joe" first. Both versions were great.

Michael Frazier

[zwerni]

East Side Story - great Squeeze album

[Riverman94610]

Another two great adultery songs-Woman to Woman by Shirley Brown and the answer song by Barbara Mason,From His Woman to You
"Shirley,I'm a YOUNG woman and I can't do all the things you do for that man
I can't buy his clothes or pay his car note
And I CERTAINLY can't keep money in his pocket
But I can give him what he needs when he needs it
I can give him LOOOOVE,oooooohhhhh

[.cnI redruM]

A great Gordon Lightfoot song on the topic was "Sundown." It was about what he intended to do to some guy who was carrying on with his lady.

Scary song. The guy keeps getting drunker and nastier as the lyrics progress. It sort of tells people to keep it zipped or end up like Bobbitt.

[kalee]

Boy, I am an innocent. I always thought Mr. Jones was singing that song to Mrs. Jones, just trying to be romantic. I'd better go look at the words.

[paws_and_whiskers]

"Torn Between Two Lovers" - Mary MacGregor

"Take a Letter Maria" - R.B. Greaves

[linda_22003]

"Me and Mrs., Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Jones,
Mrs. Jones got a thing going on,
We both know that it's wrong,
But it's much too strong to let it cool down now.

We gotta be extra careful
that we don't build our hopes too high
Cause she's got her own obligations and so do I."

Nope, that's not a marital love song. :)

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I vote for an old classic...

"Lucille" by Kenny Rogers.

[MozarkDawg]

Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood have got to at least get an honorable mention in there for their duet of "In Another's Eyes" which was a song about having an affair that turned out to be true and caused both of their divorces and then their marriage to each other.

Did Vince Gill and Amy Grant have a song together as well, or did they just have the adulterous-affair-then-marraige too?

[akorahil]

Then again, Frank did know a thing or two about, *ahem*, "runnin' around" if I recall correctly...

Maybe he could have given ol' Gavin some pointers..

[B4Ranch]

The Church gossip

Mildred, the church gossip, and self-appointed monitor of the church's morals, kept sticking her nose into other people's business. Several members did not approve of her extra-curricular activities, but feared her enough to maintain their silence.

She made a mistake, however, when she accused George, a new member, of being an alcoholic after she saw his old pickup parked in front of the town's only bar one afternoon. She emphatically told George (and several others) that everyone seeing it there would know what he was doing.

George, a man of few words, stared at her for a moment and just turned and walked away.

He didn't explain, defend, or deny... He said nothing. Later that evening, George quietly parked his pickup in front of Mildred's house ... walked home ... and left it there all night.

You gotta love George.

[theFIRMbss]

>What's the best adultery song?

Well, this goes way back,
and I can't say exactly
I understand it,

but I kinda think
one character is cheating
with someone's woman . . .

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The festival was over, the boys were all plannin' for a fall,
The cabaret was quiet except for the drillin' in the wall.
The curfew had been lifted and the gamblin' wheel shut down,
Anyone with any sense had already left town.
He was standin' in the doorway lookin' like the Jack of Hearts.

He moved across the mirrored room, "Set it up for everyone," he said,
Then everyone commenced to do what they were doin' before he turned their heads.
Then he walked up to a stranger and he asked him with a grin,
"Could you kindly tell me, friend, what time the show begins?"
Then he moved into the corner, face down like the Jack of Hearts.

Backstage the girls were playin' five-card stud by the stairs,
Lily had two queens, she was hopin' for a third to match her pair.
Outside the streets were fillin' up, the window was open wide,
A gentle breeze was blowin', you could feel it from inside.
Lily called another bet and drew up the Jack of Hearts.

Big Jim was no one's fool, he owned the town's only diamond mine,
He made his usual entrance lookin' so dandy and so fine.
With his bodyguards and silver cane and every hair in place,
He took whatever he wanted to and he laid it all to waste.
But his bodyguards and silver cane were no match for the Jack of Hearts.

Rosemary combed her hair and took a carriage into town,
She slipped in through the side door lookin' like a queen without a crown.
She fluttered her false eyelashes and whispered in his ear,
"Sorry, darlin', that I'm late," but he didn't seem to hear.
He was starin' into space over at the Jack of Hearts.

"I know I've seen that face before," Big Jim was thinkin' to himself,
"Maybe down in Mexico or a picture up on somebody's shelf."
But then the crowd began to stamp their feet and the house lights did dim
And in the darkness of the room there was only Jim and him,
Starin' at the butterfly who just drew the Jack of Hearts.

Lily was a princess, she was fair-skinned and precious as a child,
She did whatever she had to do, she had that certain flash every time she smiled.
She'd come away from a broken home, had lots of strange affairs
With men in every walk of life which took her everywhere.
But she'd never met anyone quite like the Jack of Hearts.

The hangin' judge came in unnoticed and was being wined and dined,
The drillin' in the wall kept up but no one seemed to pay it any mind.
It was known all around that Lily had Jim's ring
And nothing would ever come between Lily and the king.
No, nothin' ever would except maybe the Jack of Hearts.

Rosemary started drinkin' hard and seein' her reflection in the knife,
She was tired of the attention, tired of playin' the role of Big Jim's wife.
She had done a lot of bad things, even once tried suicide,
Was lookin' to do just one good deed before she died.
She was gazin' to the future, riding on the Jack of Hearts.

Lily washed her face, took her dress off and buried it away.
"Has your luck run out?" she laughed at him, "Well, I guess you must
have known it would someday.
Be careful not to touch the wall, there's a brand-new coat of paint,
I'm glad to see you're still alive, you're lookin' like a saint."
Down the hallway footsteps were comin' for the Jack of Hearts.

The backstage manager was pacing all around by his chair.
"There's something funny going on," he said, "I can just feel it in the air."
He went to get the hangin' judge, but the hangin' judge was drunk,
As the leading actor hurried by in the costume of a monk.
There was no actor anywhere better than the Jack of Hearts.

Lily's arms were locked around the man that she dearly loved to touch,
She forgot all about the man she couldn't stand who hounded her so much.
"I've missed you so," she said to him, and he felt she was sincere,
But just beyond the door he felt jealousy and fear.
Just another night in the life of the Jack of Hearts.

No one knew the circumstance but they say that it happened pretty quick,
The door to the dressing room burst open and a cold revolver clicked.
And Big Jim was standin' there, ya couldn't say surprised,
Rosemary right beside him, steady in her eyes.
She was with Big Jim but she was leanin' to the Jack of Hearts.

Two doors down the boys finally made it through the wall
And cleaned out the bank safe, it's said that they got off with quite a haul.
In the darkness by the riverbed they waited on the ground
For one more member who had business back in town.
But they couldn't go no further without the Jack of Hearts.

The next day was hangin' day, the sky was overcast and black,
Big Jim lay covered up, killed by a penknife in the back.
And Rosemary on the gallows, she didn't even blink,
The hangin' judge was sober, he hadn't had a drink.
The only person on the scene missin' was the Jack of Hearts.

The cabaret was empty now, a sign said, "Closed for repair,"
Lily had already taken all of the dye out of her hair.
She was thinkin' 'bout her father, who she very rarely saw,
Thinkin' 'bout Rosemary and thinkin' about the law.
But, most of all she was thinkin' 'bout the Jack of Hearts.

[LibLieSlayer]

David Allen Coe
"*** stains on the pillow"

LLS

[EGPWS]

Arthur Lee and Love did "Hey Joe" first. Both versions were great.

"Deep Purple" also performed it well in 1968..

[saganite]

Lynyrd Skynyrd had a great one, Give Me Three Steps, about being caught with another man's woman and looking down the bore of a '44.

[kalee]

No I guess not.

[grjr21]

I can't believe no one has yet to mention mentioned The Eagles Hotel California for the best.

BTW in case you didn't know before WW II a " hotel California " was a slang reference to the Motels that were just starting to be built on the new interstates and if someone wanted to say take their secretary to a long lunch where they could have plenty of privacy and not be noticed a "hotel California " was just the thing.


Welcome to the hotel california
Such a lovely place
Such a lovely face
They livin’ it up at the hotel california
What a nice surprise, bring your alibis

Mirrors on the ceiling,
The pink champagne on ice
And she said ’we are all just prisoners here, of our own device’
And in the master’s chambers,
They gathered for the feast
The stab it with their steely knives,
But they just can’t kill the beast

Last thing I remember, I was
Running for the door
I had to find the passage back
To the place I was before
’relax,’ said the night man,
We are programmed to receive.
You can checkout any time you like,
But you can never leave!

[enotheisen]

"Your wife is cheating on us"
from the album "Too Much Pain"
Sung by Little Milton

[paws_and_whiskers]

Did Vince Gill and Amy Grant have a song together as well, or did they just have the adulterous-affair-then-marraige too?

I believe Amy and Vince recorded "House of Love" before their respective divorces to their spouses and then marriage to each other.

[paws_and_whiskers]

Did Vince Gill and Amy Grant have a song together as well, or did they just have the adulterous-affair-then-marraige too?

I believe Amy and Vince recorded "House of Love" before their respective divorces to their spouses and then marriage to each other.