--- title: Kevin Bacon and Jimmy Fallon Cover Tom Petty Tonight Show description: A Free Fallin' horse is still a horse, of course canonical: https://time.com/4472317/jimmy-fallon-kevin-bacon-tom-petty/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-30T15:19:34.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:36:00.198Z og:title: Watch Kevin Bacon Sing A Horse-Themed Tom Petty Cover og:description: “And I’m free!/ Free horses!” og:url: https://time.com/4472317/jimmy-fallon-kevin-bacon-tom-petty/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Kevin Bacon Sing A Horse-Themed Tom Petty Cover twitter:description: “And I’m free!/ Free horses!” twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Kevin Bacon and Jimmy Fallon Sing a Horse-Themed Tom Petty Cover of 'Free Fallin' by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Aug 30, 2016 3:19 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Aug 30, 2016 3:19 PM UTC Kevin Bacon helped Jimmy Fallon revive one of _The Tonight Show’s_ best recurring segments— First Drafts of Rock on Monday. In the sketch, which imagines what early versions of famous rock songs might have sounded like, [Bacon](http://time.com/19633/kevin-bacon-explains-the-1980s-to-millennials-in-hilarious-80s-awareness-video/?iid=sr-link2) and Fallon got in touch with their inner [Tom Petty ](http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/08/17/artists-and-politicians-face-off-nine-contentious-campaign-song-battles/slide/tom-petty-vs-george-w-bush/?iid=sr-link5)and Jeff Lynne (Petty’s co-writer) and came up with an early draft of their hit “Free Fallin’”. For some reason, their version of the song had a horse theme, complete with memorably clunky lines like, “She loves flowers/ And horses too/ She likes football/ But she really like horses”—and that wasn’t even the best/worst of them. If that wasn’t enough to make you want to ride a pony to this year’s annual [Petty Fest](http://thebestfest.com/petty-fest-los-angeles/), wait until you hear the magnificent, triumphant chorus where [Fallon](http://time.com/4470235/vmas-2016-jimmy-fallon-ryan-lochte/?iid=sr-link1) and Bacon giddily sing, “And I’m free!/ Free horses!” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4472317/jimmy-fallon-kevin-bacon-tom-petty/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4472317/jimmy-fallon-kevin-bacon-tom-petty/"},"headline":"Kevin Bacon and Jimmy Fallon Sing a Horse-Themed Tom Petty Cover of 'Free Fallin'","datePublished":"2016-08-30T15:19:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:36:00.198Z","description":"“And I’m free!/ Free horses!”","url":"https://time.com/4472317/jimmy-fallon-kevin-bacon-tom-petty/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Music","jimmy fallon","The Tonight Show","tom petty","horses"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4472317/jimmy-fallon-kevin-bacon-tom-petty/","name":"Kevin Bacon and Jimmy Fallon Sing a Horse-Themed Tom Petty Cover of 'Free Fallin'"}}]}] ```