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