You’re No Good Lyrics

[Verse 1]
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 sleeping in a lion's den
I come home last night you wouldn't even let me in

[Verse 2]
Oh sometimes you're as sweet as anybody want to be
Oh when you get the crazy notion of jumping all over me
Well, you give me the blues, I guess you're satisfied
When you give me the blues I want to lay down and die

[Harmonica bridge: 0:35 - 0:58]

[Verse 3]
I helped you when you had no shoes on your feet, pretty mama
I helped you when you had no food to eat
Now you're the kind of woman that just don't understand
You're taking all my money and give it to another man

[Verse 4]
Well, you're that kind of woman makes a man lose his brains
You're that kind of woman drives a man insane
Well, you give me the blues, I guess you're satisfied
You give me the blues, I want to lay down and die

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The opening track to Bob Dylan’s debut album is a cover of Jesse Fuller’s “You’re No Good”. It was incorrectly titled “She’s No Good” when it was initially released.

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Credits
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Vocals
Acoustic Guitar
Harmonica
Recorded At
Columbia Recording Studio - New York City
Release Date
March 19, 1962
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