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this sounded a lot like Waits when I read it KS On 02/09/07, Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Tom Mazzolini, the SF Bay Area Blues impresario, - used his Saturday KPFA > radio show to say he had just learned that Bo Diddley had suffered a heart > attack (apparently this was preceded by a stroke last Spring). Then Tom > played Bo Diddley's "Who Do You Love?" (below) - a song he wrote in 1953. > Tho I probably heard this song a million times 'back in the day', I was > thunderstruck by the language, let alone the audacity of the voice. Critics > must have a name for this brand of surrealism, it's gothic, southern > graveyard mock Satan/devil rattling bravado. This guy is going to control > the whole street! Let alone happy or terrified "Arlene". It's a wonderful > masterpiece. > > May Bo Diddley make it quickly back into play. If not, he leaves more than a > few 'scorchers'. > > I walk 47 miles of barbed wire, > I use a cobra-snake for a necktie, > I got a brand new house on the roadside, > Made from rattlesnake hide, > I got a brand new chimney made on top, > Made out of a human skull, > Now come on take a walk with me, arlene, > And tell me, who do you love? > > Who do you love? > Who do you love? > Who do you love? > Who do you love? > > Tombstone hand and a graveyard mine, > Just 22 and I dont mind dying. > > Who do you love? > Who do you love? > Who do you love? > Who do you love? > > I rode around the town, use a rattlesnake whip, > Take it easy arlene, dont give me no lip, > > Who do you love? > Who do you love? > Who do you love? > Who do you love? > > Night was dark, but the sky was blue, > Down the alley, the ice-wagon flew, > Heard a bump, and somebody screamed, > You should have heard just what I seen. > > Who do you love? > Who do you love? > Who do you love? > Who do you love? > > Arlene took me by my hand, > And she said ooowee bo, you know I understand. > > Who do you love? > Who do you love? > Who do you love? > Who do you love? >