but I love you just the sameI know you didn't want me, the day I changed your name When he wrote new words to the tune, his mood was still resigned: You's a cruel heated woman, swear, and you just can't realiseThat's all right baby, I'll be the same when I rise Johnson decides that his "kind-hearted woman" is, after all, hostile. But there is no resignation, only anguish: I love my baby, my baby don't love meAnd I really love that woman, can't stand to leave her beShe's a kind-hearted woman, she studies evil all the timeYou wells to kill me, as to have it on your mind Other versions Like many of Johnson's songs, "Kind Hearted Woman Blues" is a staple in the repertoires of many blues musicians and has been recorded by dozens of traditional and contemporary blues figures, including Muddy Waters, Robert Lockwood, Jr., Johnny Winter, David Bromberg, George Thorogood, and Keb' Mo'. It was included on Eric Clapton's 2004 album, Me and Mr. Johnson, along with many other Johnson classics. The Youngbloods recorded a version of the song and it was released as a B-side on two singles: "Dreamboat" in 1972 and "Running Bear" in 1972. On Led Zeppelin's cover of Johnson's "Traveling Riverside Blues", singer Robert Plant quotes this song with the line: "Got a kind-hearted woman/she studies evil all the time". Ralph McTell recorded the song for his second LP Spiral Staircase (1969) According to Stephen Calt, the phrase kind-hearted woman was slang for a woman who "catered to a gigolo in return for sexual fidelity". References 1937 songs Songs written by Robert Johnson Robert Johnson songs Muddy Waters songs George Thorogood songs Eric Clapton songs The Youngbloods songs Blues songs Song recordings produced by Don Law