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Jim Dixon Origins: Hesitation Blues (45) Lyr Add: CURLY HEADED WOMAN (Burnett & Rutherford) 10 Nov 15

CURLY HEADED WOMAN
As recorded by [Richard] Burnett & [Leonard] Rutherford, 1927.

1. Raise up high your window and open wide your door.
I've got another feller; I don't want you no more.

CHORUS: Tell me how long will I have to wait?
Can I get you now, [or] must I hesitate?

2. There are rocks in the mountains; there are fish in the sea.
That curly-headed woman made a fool out o' me.

3. Hesitatin' stockin's and a-hesitatin' shoes,
I'm a-lookin' for the woman got the hesitatin' blues.

4. They put me in the jail with my face towards the wall.
That curly-headed woman was the cause of it all.

5. Borned in Virginny in a rattlesnake den,
My daily occupation: takin' women 'way from men.

6. I would rather be in Cuby a-settin' on a log
Than to be over in France and be treated like a dog.


Also recorded by The Red State Ramblers on "Commonwealth" (2008) and The Little Brothers on "Walked All the Way Back Home" (2010).

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