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GUEST,Joseph Scott	Origins: Hesitation Blues (45)	RE: Origins: Hesitation Blues	07 May 21
The Hylo Brown song is quite in the mainstream of versions of "Hesitation Blues." E.g. compare “Ashes to ashes, and dust to dust If the booze don't get you—-well, the women must Will you tell me how long do I have to wait Do I get it now, or must I hesitate” in _The Stranger's Banquet_ by Donn Byrne, 1919 “Jumped in the river with intention to drown/Saw a red-headed woman and I couldn't go down” "Tom Watson Special" by Fiddlin' John Carson 1923 "Rocks in the mountain just as big as the sea, that Galax girl made a fool out of me” “Yodeling Blues” Buck Mt. Band "I got a woman, she's long and tall Sits in her kitchen with her feet in the hall” in “Hesitation Blues,” Dorothy Scarborough's 1923 article, sung “some years ago” by a black maid

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