“Honey” is the first track on Moby’s 1999 commercial breakthrough Play. It was also the first commercially released single from the album, released nearly eight months ahead of the full length.
Like many of Play’s most notable tracks, “Honey” is based around an a cappella sample he originally heard...
[Refrain: Bessie Jones]
'Til my honey come back sometimes
I wanna rap that jack sometimes
I get a hump in my back sometimes
I'm going over here sometimes
'Til my honey come back sometimes
I wanna rap that jack sometimes
I get a hump in my back sometimes
I'm going over here sometimes
'Til my honey come back sometimes
I wanna rap that jack sometimes
I get a hump in my back sometimes
I'm going over here sometimes
'Til my honey come back sometimes
I wanna rap that jack sometimes
I get a hump in my back sometimes
I'm going over here sometimes
'Til my honey come back sometimes
I wanna rap that jack sometimes
I get a hump in my back sometimes
I'm going over here sometimes
'Til my honey come back sometimes
I wanna rap that jack sometimes
I get a hump in my back sometimes
I'm going over here sometimes
'Til my honey come back sometimes
I wanna rap that jack sometimes
I get a hump in my back sometimes
I'm going over here sometimes
[Verse: Bessie Jones]
'Til my honey come back sometimes
'Til my honey come back sometimes
'Til my honey come back sometimes
'Til my honey come back sometimes
[Bridge: Bessie Jones]
Way down yonder, 'til my honey come back
Way down yonder, 'til my honey come back
Way down yonder, 'til my honey come back
Way down yonder, 'til my honey come back
Way down yonder, 'til my honey come back
Way down yonder, 'til my honey come back
Way down yonder, 'til my honey come back
Way down yonder, 'til my honey come back
Way down yonder, sometimes
[Refrain: Bessie Jones]
'Til my honey come back sometimes
I wanna rap that jack sometimes
I get a hump in my back sometimes
I'm going over here sometimes
'Til my honey come back sometimes
I wanna rap that jack sometimes
I get a hump in my back sometimes
I'm going over here sometimes
'Til my honey come back sometimes
I wanna rap that jack sometimes
I get a hump in my back sometimes
I'm going over here sometimes
'Til my honey come back sometimes
I wanna rap that jack sometimes
I get a hump in my back sometimes
I'm going over here sometimes
'Til my honey come back sometimes
I wanna rap that jack sometimes
I get a hump in my back sometimes
I'm going over here sometimes
'Til my honey come back sometimes
I wanna rap that jack sometimes
I get a hump in my back sometimes
I'm going over here sometimes
'Til my honey come back sometimes
I wanna rap that jack sometimes
I get a hump in my back sometimes
I'm going over here sometimes
'Til my honey come back sometimes
I wanna rap that jack sometimes
I get a hump in my back sometimes
I'm going over here sometimes
'Til my honey come back sometimes
I wanna rap that jack sometimes
I get a hump in my back sometimes
I'm going over here sometimes
'Til my honey come back sometimes
I wanna rap that jack sometimes
I get a hump in my back sometimes
I'm going over here sometimes
'Til my honey come back sometimes
I wanna rap that jack sometimes
I get a hump in my back sometimes
I'm going over here sometimes
Honey was written by Alan Lomax & Bessie Jones & Moby.
Honey was produced by Moby.
In an interview with Rolling Stone:
My friend Dimitri Ehrlich, who is a music journalist here in New York, got this Alan Lomax box set. He had listened to it and wasn’t that interested in it and he gave it to me, and I heard all those great a cappellas. I wrote “Honey” in about 10 minutes. My girlf...