Please help me find a song... with this lyric.

"I don't want no Red Headed Woman."

I believe it is an old blues song... with these other lines... I am not
positive on the following lines or there order...

... I don't want her.... No no I don't want her...
... she's so fine... Oh lord she's do fine...

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Request for Question Clarification by journalist-ga on 02 Sep 2003 15:17 PDT

Would you review these lyrics and see if one sounds familiar?  If so,
please post thusly and a Researcher can continue the quest for your
answer.

Saint Louis Blues by W.C. Handy
http://tinpan.fortunecity.com/riff/11/frame/s2.html

Red Headed Woman
http://www.rlyrics.com/B%5CBruceSpringsteen/RedHeadedWoman.asp

Same as above but various versions
http://www.missingtracks.com/human/red_headed_woman.htm

Red Headed Woman (look about 2/3 of the way down the page)
http://www.damonfowler.com/roots_and_branches.htm

Best regards,
journalist-ga

I located two references to older blues songs with "red headed woman"
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"It's quite appropriate that the CD opens with Little Walter's 1950
recording "Red Headed Woman," for the singer's harmonica solos had a
major impact on many Chicago bluesmen of the 1950s and 1960s."
http://www.artistdirect.com/store/artist/album/0,,1093114,00.html

Read a bit more about Little Walter at
http://www.artistdirect.com/music/artist/card/0,,459446,00.html

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Here is the list of songs with artists of "red headed woman" from
http://rcs.law.emory.edu/rcs/titles/r/re.htm

Red-Headed Gal  Chuck Jones  Belle Meade BM-422  1960/June 27
Bb pop rev.  

  Red Headed Stranger  Sonny Curtis  Coral 62207  1960/May 23
Bb pop rev.  

  Red Headed Stranger  Glen Glenn  [need info]  

Red Headed Woman  Sonny Burgess  Sun 247  1956/Sept. 1
Bb c&w rev.
  
  Red Headed Woman  Bobby Crafford  Razorback R-114  1964
RCA mx code  

  Red Headed Woman  The Jokers  [unissued]   
   
  Red Headed Woman  Lynn Pratt  Hornet 1003  1959 or earlier
(BMI est.)  

  Red Headed Woman  Rebel Rousers  Jan JP11959  1959
rel. no. code  

  Red Headed Woman  Johnny Skiles  [unissued]   
   
  Red Headed Woman  Wayne Worley  Elbridge 11016  1961/July 31
Bb pop rev.  

  Red Headed Woman  Wayne Worley  Brent 7024  1961/Aug.
(Bb est.)  

  Red Headed Woman [alt. vers.]  Sonny Burgess  Sun unissued  1956
(Sun Rec.)  

  Red Headed Woman [alt. vers.]  The Jokers  [unissued]   
   
  Red Headed Woman [alt. vers.]  Rebel Rousers  Jan unissued  1959
   
  Red Headed Woman [alt. vers. 2]  Sonny Burgess  Sun unissued  1956
(Sun Rec.)  

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If any look familiar, please let me know.

Best regards,
journalist-ga

Perhaps it is Muddy Waters:

"Some of my favorite early Muddy Waters recordings are the ones he did
with Baby Face Leroy Foster on the Parkway label. There is "Red Headed
Woman": "I say looka here, looka here baby, see what you done done,
Done squeezed my lemon, caused my juice to run."
From http://www.livingart.com/raving/articles/housemusic101-29.htm

"One of the hottest numbers is the Chicago stomp, "Red Headed Woman."
It's been covered by a multitude of artists over the years, but this
one is the real deal, folks."
From http://www.bluenight.com/BluesBytes/fk0902.html regarding the CD
"The Hollywood Fats Band"

If the tune is an old blues number, I'll wager that it was the Muddy
Waters "Red Headed Woman" that you heard.  That's my guess, anyway,
and I'm going to quit commenting now because I'm getting obsessed with
the search!  ;)

Best regards,
journalist-ga

It's a long-shot I know, but how about this one:

"I don't want no bald-headed woman
It'll make me mean, yeah lord, it'll make me mean..."

"Bald-Headed Woman"
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Club/6041/Recordings/Lyrics/IAM-ALM-BHW.htm

The words are traditional, and there are other variations around.

Regards,
eiffel-ga