"Woke Up This Morning" is a song by British band Alabama 3 from their 1997 album Exile on Coldharbour Lane.

"[2] Alabama 3 frontman Rob Spragg wrote the song after hearing about the 1996 Sara Thornton murder case,[3] who stabbed her husband after claiming to be the victim of two years of his abuse, mistreatment and neglect.

[4] The song is co-written with Piers Marsh, Simon Edwards, and Jake Black.

"We started with a Howlin' Wolf loop, but a lot of blues lyrics are quite misogynist[ic]," Spragg explained.

"So I turned it round to be about a woman who's had enough and gets a gun – it's quite ironic that it's become a New Jersey gangster anthem.