After midnight
We're gonna let it all hang out
After midnight
We're gonna chug-a-lug and shout
We're gonna 'cause talk and suspicion
Give an exhibition
Find out what it is all about

After midnight
We're gonna let it all hang out
After midnight
Gonna shake your tambourine
After midnight it's gonna be peaches and cream, hmm
We're gonna cause talk and suspicion
Give an exhibition
Find out what it is all about

After midnight
We're gonna let it all hang out

We're gonna 'cause talk and suspicion
Give an exhibition
Find out what it is all about

After midnight
We're gonna let it all hang out
After midnight
We're gonna let it all hang out


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    If you just discovered this song. Consider yourself lucky. It's pretty old. But soooo good. Only JJ Cale does this song as sexy as this. Do you have to be stoned to get into it. Or with your honey late at night when listening to it. No. But it sure makes it even better. I have always thought this song is based around the 1960's and 1970's practice of hippies sitting around cross legged. Passin the pipe, drinkin, chatting around concepts .An listening to music late into the night. Is this song based on those free love values of that era. I think so. And it's also about not givin a Sh..t about infidelity.

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