The late Cas Wallin of Madison County, NC, gave me the following verses. He was somewhat reluctant to sing them to me at first, possibly because of the "Shuck my corn" verse, one that I have never come across elsewhere.

HESITATION BLUES

I went down to the river
Had a notion to drown,
Spied a red-headed woman
And I couldn't go down.

CHORUS:
Tell me how long?
Can I get you now?
Must I hesitate?
Will I have to wait?

It's rocks in the mountain
And the fish in the sea.
Well, woman if you love me
Throw your arms around me.

There ain't one thing
That I cain't understand,
Why a bow-legged woman
Likes a pigeon-toed man.

Well, I was born in Cincinnati,
In a rattlesnake's den.
My daily occupation,
Taking women away from men.

Well, if you don't believe
I will shuck your corn,
Slip to my house
When my man's gone.

Now there's another thing
That I cain't understand,
Why the world's full of women
And none of them mine.