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GUEST,Joseph Scott Origins: 'Ryder' or 'Rider' in blues songs (20) RE: Origins: 'Ryder' or 'Rider' in blues songs 08 Jun 20


Here's how some people sang the main line; it shows that this 1910s folk blues could be sung a variety of ways. (Unless you were copying a Ma Rainey record, which some did. The song Ma recorded was copyrighted by Lena Arrant, a fellow blues singer, that year.)

Ed Bell: "Jelly roll, jelly roll, well you see what you went and done"
Billy Bird: "Now look here baby, look what you've done done"
Lewis Black: "Don't you see mama see what you done done"
Bob Campbell: "Run here woman and see what you done done"
John Estes: "Now look here baby, see what you done done"
William Harris: "Now look-a here partner, see what you done to me"
Lethia Hill: "Look here sweet papa, just see what you done done"
Myrt Holmes: "Run here, faro, see what you done done"
Roosevelt Holts: "Run here mama, see what you done done"
Peg Leg Howell: "Sweet mama, sweet mama, see what you done done"
Freddy King: "See see baby, see what you have done"
Bill Jackson: "Now, look, here woman, look what you done done"
Joe McCoy: "Well look here, mama, see what you done done"
Fred McDowell: "I said look-a here baby, honey, what you done done"
Memphis Minnie: "Won't you look here baby what you done done"
Tom Nelson: "Hey baby, see what you have done"
Jimmie Rodgers: "Look here, mama, see what you have done"
Jimmy Rushing: "Baby, see what you have done"
Thomas Shaw: "Now look, baby, look what you done done"
Esther Mae Scott: "Now look here, pretty mama, see what you have done"
Hobart Smith: "Come here woman, see what you have done"
Booker White: "See see mama what you done done"
Big Joe Williams: "Look pretty mama what you done done"


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