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Thread #21086 Message #223094
Posted By: GUEST,DWDitty
04-May-00 - 04:04 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Hesitation Blues
Subject: Lyr Add: HESITATION BLUES (Roy Book Binder)
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I ain't no baker, ain't no baker man's son, but I'll keep your biscuits warm til you baker man comes.
I ain't no doctor, ain't no doctor's son, but I'll be on you case til your doctor man comes.
or (My Dad was an architect)
I ain't no architect, but I'm an architect's son. Got a design on you baby that'll make Frank Lloyd Wright run.
I got hesitation shoes and hesitation stockings, I got a hesitation mama does my hesitation rocking.
and on and on and on...
I learned this song off a Roy Book Binder video (Homespuntapes.com). Roy started taking lessons from the Reverend in the 60's and then became his driver. A lot of the story is on his CD "Don't start me talkin'" DW