YOU'RE NO GOOD

(Jesse Fuller)

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Lyrics as recorded by Bob Dylan at Columbia Studios, New York, NY, 20 Nov 1961 (CO68726, take 5), transcribed by Manfred Helfert.

A spoken introduction (often referred to as "Connecticut Cowboy") was also recorded (separately) but not used on the released version (listed as "She's No Good") on Bob Dylan, 1962.

Dylan also performed the song on the East Orange Tape, Feb/Mar 1961, Minnesota Party Tape, May 1961, First McKenzie Tape, Nov-Dec 1961.

Well, I don't know why I love you like I do --
Nobody in the world can get along with you.
You got the ways of a devil sleepin' in a lion's den;
I come home last night you wouldn't even let me in.

Oh, sometimes you're as sweet as anybody wanna agree,
When you get a crazy notion jumpin' all over me --
When you give me the blues, I guess you're satisfied,
When you give me the blues I wanna lay down and die.

I helped you when you had no shoes on your feet, pretty momma,
I helped you when you had no food to eat.
You're a kinda woman I just don't understand --
You're takin' all my money, give it to another man.

Well, you're that kind of woman makes a man lose his brains,
You're that kind of woman drives a man insane.
You give me the blues, I guess you're satisfied,
You give me the blues, I wanna lay down and die --
Well, you give me the blues, I wanna lay down and die.