Who Do You Love? Lyrics
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?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
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?
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?
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?
One of my favorite songs, Its originally by Bo Diddley
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!!
The doors did a good version of this
I don't think Bo Diddley cared for or knew much about Haitian "religious" practices...
There's something about this song that's just...primal. You can sort of see cavemen dancing around a campfire to it.
Jesus And Mary Chain also do aversion of this song, although Gearges' version never goes out of style.
It's about voodoo ritual.
Actually, it is about Hoodoo. Not Voodoo. There is a huge difference.
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.