Lay Down Sally
	Produced by Glyn Johns
	Released on December 1977
	UK CHART POSITION #39 . . . US CHART POSITION #3 (charted Jan. 7, 1978 for 23 weeks) . . . GOLD RECORD (4/17/78)
	Find it at GEMM
RS 886 wo. picture sleeve [high resolution scan]

I f you’re not hooked by the opening riff, you’ve got more willpower than me. There’s an offhand genius to Clapton’s performance on “Lay Down Sally” that seems to embody the yin and yang of this enigmatic artist. The US and UK singles used different B sides: “Next Time You See Her” in the US and “Cocaine” in the UK. “Next Time You See Her” is strictly B material; I still don’t know why you’d tell “the other man” to carry a message for you and threaten to kill him at the same time. I’ve tried this with FedEx, and it just doesn’t work. (Only kidding.) There’s a little more on the song available at Songfacts.

TRACK LISTING

UK 7-inch single

1. LAY DOWN SALLY
2. COCAINE
   
   US 7-inch single
   
1. LAY DOWN SALLY    (Eric Clapton/Marcy Levy/George Terry)    3:20
2. NEXT TIME YOU SEE HER    (Eric Clapton)    3:58
   
   US 7-inch single reissue
   
1. LAY DOWN SALLY
2. WONDERFUL TONIGHT

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