Oversoul mentioned this. Sonny Boy Williamson recorded two versions of this song. From the sound, I think the first of these is the earlier one:


TOO CLOSE TOGETHER
As recorded by Sonny Boy Williamson [II]

I. 2.36 – from the album "King Biscuit Time" (2000):

Well, you take back in the year nineteen an' forty-four:
I had two fine chicks lived right door-to-door.
They were too close together.
Yeah, too close together.
It was too close together, man, but that was the best that I could do.

Well, I woke up early one mornin' to make a 'fore-day creep.
[By the] Time I knocked on the door the other girl was lookin' at me.
It was too close together.
Yeah, they was too close together.
It was too close together, but that was the best that I could do.

Well, I slipped in the back door to get me a little toddy(?).
Before I could walk out the door, she knowed all about it.
It was too close together.
Yeah, it was too close together.
I know it was too close together, but that was the best that I could do.

II. 2:10 or 2:12 - from the albums "Ninety Nine" (2017) and "The Essential Sonny Boy Williamson" (1993)

I had two fine chicks, lived both on the same street.
Too much love, and the time couldn't be beat.
It was too close together.
Yes, man, they lived too close together.
Yeah, they was so close together, that I couldn't see one for the other.

Early one Sunday mornin' they both would go to church.
I tried to slip one out, but I see it just won't work.
It was too close together.
Yeah, they was too close together.
I know it was too close together, an' I couldn't see one for the other.

Got up early one mornin', thought I was makin' a 'fore-day creep.
Time I knocked on her door, the other girl says: "Is you lookin' for me?"
They was too close together.
Oh, yeah, they was too close together.
I know it was too close together, an' I couldn't see one for seein' the other.