She's young and wild, she hangs around downtown She's young and wild, she hangs around downtown She flirts with the policy writers, she have tore her repatation down Oh yes, she hangs around down on Beale Avenue Oh yes, oh yes, she hangs around down on Beale Avenue I'm crazy about the woman, but I can't stand the way she do Now, you can't be her boyfriend, if you don't fuss and fight She has a head like a ram, and she claim there's no such thing as right You can't be her boyfriend, if you don't fuss and fight She has a head like a ram, and she claim there's no such thing as right Oh yes, she even stays out late at night Oh yes, she even stays out late at night She's a no-good woman, she don't mean her daddy right I don't no woman, wants every downtown man she meet I don't want no woman, that wants every downtown man she meet She ain't nothin' but trouble, she shouldn't be 'lowed out in the streets