MY NAME IS WOMAN
(Dan Hoffman / David Kershenbaum)

Jean Shepard - 1971


 

It started at the apple tree
I took a bite, you followed me
Umm-hmm, my name is woman
My name is Eve and I'm a woman

It's written in the hist'ry books
You lost your strength from the hair I took
Umm-hmm, my name is woman
My name's Delilah and I'm a woman

Complicated, perfumated, many times exaggerated
Sometimes loved and sometimes hated woman
I am a woman
My name is woman

A better world I tried to make
Then they burned me at the stake
Umm-hmm, my name is woman
I am Joan and I'm a woman

Wherefore art thou love of mine
The greatest lovers of all time
Umm-hmm, my name is woman
I am Juliet and I'm a woman

Complicated, perfumated, many times exaggerated
Sometimes loved and sometimes hated woman
I am a woman
My name is woman

Late at night when all is quiet
You reach out to hold me tight
Umm-hmm, I am a woman
My name is Jean and I'm your woman



(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - January 2011)