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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