I Asked for Water (She Gave Me Gasoline) Lyrics

Lyric discussion by musica77 

Cover art for I Asked for Water (She Gave Me Gasoline) lyrics by Howling Wolf, The

I think the singer is a cold-blooded psycho. He's killed his woman, he's watching the hearse roll by, and yet he doesn't know why she "left" him and when she's coming back to him.

Boy, did you ever misunderstand the lyrics. She's a "woo-hoo woman," which means that she's a party girl. A drunk. The narrator is bemoaning the fact that he's lost his woman to alcohol. Gasoline = alcohol.