RED HEADED WOMAN^©

Live 17 Nov 1990 version

Well brunettes are fine man
And blondes are fun
But when it comes to getting a dirty job done

I'll take a red headed woman
A red headed woman
I'll take a red headed woman
Yeah that will get that job done

Well now listen up stud
Your life's been wasted
'Til you've been down on your knees and tasted

A red headed woman
A red headed woman
It takes a red headed woman
To get that job done
Or you're done

Yiii...
Whoaaa...

Well tight skirt, strawberry hair
Tell me what secrets you've got baby under there*
Big green eyes that look like sun
They can see every cheap thing that you ever done

Well now I don't care how many girls you've dated, man
You ain't lived till you've had your tires rotated

By a red headed woman
Yeah-oh a red headed woman
It takes a red headed woman
To gone and get that job done

Well now all you girls out there tonight sure look fine**
But my heart and soul and this body of mine**

Is a red headed woman's
Yeah it's a red headed woman
It takes a red headed woman
To get that dirty job done

Ah yeah come baby!
Yiii...

What's that baby?***
Will I what?***
Can I what?***
Ah sure girl, you know what I like***
Yiii...

The above lyrics refer to the second of the two-night benefit shows for the Christic Institute, on 17 Nov 1990 at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA.

* Lyrics that differ from the previous night
** Lyrics that differ from the MTV UnPlugged version.
*** Added outro

Check out the MTV UnPlugged version, live 16 Nov 1990 version, live 24 Apr 1996 version, live 26 Nov 1996 version, live 29 Nov 1999 version, and live 29 Jun 2000 version.

Spoken intro on 17 Nov 1990 at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA:

Yeah, this is uh... It's funny, about 20 years ago, when Jackson and, and Bonnie and I met, I was playing at Max's Kansas City, Jackson was playing at the Bitter End, and uh, Bonnie was playing at Cafe Au Go Go and this guy David Blue saw me at Max's and say "Hey kid, come here", and brought me down uh, to Bitter End and Jackson had his first record out, and at the time I don't think I had a record out yet. I got up and played and, and Bonnie came across the street from Cafe Au Go Go and... You know, so, I was telling the folks last night that back when uh, it was hard to get a job, Bonnie Raitt used to let me open up for her. She said she thought I was cute (cheers). You gotta watch those redheads, ???, it's the redheads. Wow! You know. Well you know Bonnie's got that sexy thing going and Patti came down tonight and like to get them two redheads together and... And like when they both wear their hair up high, they, they kinda have that Miss Kitty thing going from the ??? (cheers). Yeah, it's nice, it's nice. But uh, anyway, this is uh, this is to my two favorite redheads. Oh yeah, like I remember how to play it.