I got a kindhearted woman
        do anything in this world for me
I got a kindhearted woman
        do anything in this world for me
But these evil-kindhearted women
        man, they will not let me be
I love my baby
        my baby don't love me
I love my baby, oooh
        my baby don't love me
But I really love that woman
        can't stand to leave her be
A-ain't but the one thing
        makes Mister Johnson drink
it’s worried ‘bout how you treat me, baby
        I begin to think
Oh babe, my life don't feel the same
You breaks my heart
        wheen you call Mister So-and-So’s name
(guitar solo)
She’s a kindhearted woman
        she studies evil all the time
She’s a kindhearted woman
        she studies evil all the time
You well’s to kill me
        as to have it on your mind

Notes: 1. The guitar solo in this take is the only one Johnson ever recorded!
Notes: 2. The "well’s" in the last verse is a dialectic contraction of "had just as well" and
                is still in common usage. It also appears in the next take. See also "Come On In
                My Kitchen" (take2).
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