Original Bo Diddley version
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 mind
Just 22 and I don't 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, don't 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?
Written by Ellas McDaniel, and originally by Bo Diddley from his 1956 single WHO DO YOU LOVE? / I'M BAD. He later included it on his 1964 LP Bo Diddley's 16 All-Time Greatest Hits. The above lyrics are for the original Bo Diddley version of WHO DO YOU LOVE ME?
List of available versions of WHO DO YOU LOVE? on this website:
WHO DO YOU LOVE? [Live 28 Jun 1988 version]