 The song incorporates vocal samples from "Sometimes" by American blues singer Bessie Jones, while its instrumentation is built around a repeating piano riff sampled from the song "Woman to Woman" by Joe Cocker (released in 1972).Moby discovered the "Sometimes" sample while listening to albums of folk music recordings compiled by field collector Alan Lomax.He subsequently composed "Honey", along with several other songs from "Play", using the Lomax recordings.