"She's a Mean Woman" — the blues man on a woman whose cruelty he can't resist.
I've got a mean woman, and she's always doing me wrong
Yes, you know she's mean, and she's always doing me wrong
I believe to my soul, I've got leave my home
She is a mean woman, oh, she never treats me right
Oh, mean and evil woman, and she never treats me right
Only go around every day, and don't come home 'til midnight
Lord, if only, only she would treat me fair
Oh, if I could get my baby, if could only get her to treat me fair
Oh, she would own me, yes, she would own me anywhere
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- A B.B. King recording. The mean woman — dangerous, hard, and impossible to leave — is one of the blues tradition's most compelling paradoxes. The worse she is, the deeper the love.