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Who Do You Love? Lyrics

I walked forty-seven miles of barbed wire, I got a cobra snake for a necktie
A brand new house on the road side, and it's a-made out of rattlesnake hide
Got a band new chimney put on top, and it's a-made out of human skull
Come on take a little walk with me baby, and tell me who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?


Around the town I use a rattlesnake whip, take it easy baby don't you give me no lip
Who do you love?
Who do you love?


I've got a tombstone hand and a graveyard mind, I'm just twenty-two and I don't mind dying
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?


Now Arlene took a-me by my hand, she said "Lonesome George you don't understand,
who do you love?"
The night were dark and the sky were blue, down the alleyway a house wagon flew
Hit a bump and somebody screamed, you should've heard what I'd seen
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?


Yeah, I've got a tombstone hand in a graveyard mine, just twenty-two baby I don't mind dying
Snake skin shoes baby put them on your feet, got the goodtime music and the Bo Diddley beat
Who do you love?
Who do you love?


I walked forty-seven miles of barbed wire, I got a cobra snake for a necktie
A brand new house on the road side, and it's made out of rattlesnake hide
Got a band new chimney put on top, and it's made out of human skull
Come on take a little walk with me child, tell me who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
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Cover art for Who Do You Love? lyrics by George Thorogood

One of my favorite songs, Its originally by Bo Diddley

Cover art for Who Do You Love? lyrics by George Thorogood

Ever since I saw Joe Dirt, everytime I hear this I automatically think of the part where he's at the fair. Killer song none the less!!

Cover art for Who Do You Love? lyrics by George Thorogood

The doors did a good version of this

Cover art for Who Do You Love? lyrics by George Thorogood

I don't think Bo Diddley cared for or knew much about Haitian "religious" practices...

Cover art for Who Do You Love? lyrics by George Thorogood

There's something about this song that's just...primal. You can sort of see cavemen dancing around a campfire to it.

Cover art for Who Do You Love? lyrics by George Thorogood

Jesus And Mary Chain also do aversion of this song, although Gearges' version never goes out of style.

Cover art for Who Do You Love? lyrics by George Thorogood

It's about voodoo ritual.

Cover art for Who Do You Love? lyrics by George Thorogood

Actually, it is about Hoodoo. Not Voodoo. There is a huge difference.

Cover art for Who Do You Love? lyrics by George Thorogood

Every time I hear this song I get chills. Just the very question, "Who Do You Love" is enough to stop me in my tracks, and question my priorities in life.

In the Hard Rock Cafe in Manhattan, I was out with friends celebrating my High School Graduation. There, right next to our table, was a statue of the Buddha, surrounded by a Cross, some money, an office building, pictures of people.

In the center, in what I remember to be letters 100 stories high but probably no more than 2 feet tall were the words, "Who Do You Love".

When I hear this song, especially the version which has Bo Diddley repeating the questions so many times so early in the song, I am transported back to the moment I saw it, being struck by the question, getting the reference, and recognizing the significance that the answer would hold for the rest of my life.