We Ought to Be Drinkin' by Sheryl Crow

Album: Feels Like Home (2013)

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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 Oughta 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!"

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