Hesitation Blues

I'll go down to the land

and take a rocking chair.

If the blues ever meet me,

they will rock away from here.

Oh, tell me, how long

have I got to wait?

Oh, babe, can I get you now? How much I

hesitate.

I was born on the mountain,

raised in the dance.

If I should get paid for taking chances,

tell me then, oh, tell me, how

long have I got to wait?

Oh, give me one, one, one, one, one.

How much I hesitate.

I'm going way out West to marry a Mindy.

Swore I'd have a Mindy indeed for a

father-in-law.

Tell me, how long

have I got to wait?

Oh, babe, can I get you now? How much I

hesitate.

I had a dream last night

that a rubber tire had took me

to the graveyard and forgot to bring me

back.

Oh, tell me, how long have I got to

wait?

Oh, give me eleven, eleven, eleven, seven,

eleven.

Must I hesitate?

Jazz it, boys, jazz it.

That man plays a wicked tune. Ah!

Never marry a fat girl,

she'll make you stout.

Put pennies in the bed,

she keeps sliding out.

Oh, tell me, how long have I got to

wait?

Oh, can I get you now? How much I

hesitate.

I'll never marry a thin girl,

whatever you do.

If she pulls out the bath plug,

she's liable to go through.

Oh, tell me, how long have I got to wait?

Oh, give me five, six, eight, one, nine.

How much I hesitate.

I went out in the country,

sat down by a brook.

Sat down on a bumblebee, he backed up

and pushed.

Oh, tell me, how long have I got to

wait?

Oh, babe, can I get you now? How much I

hesitate.

Cherries make pretty cheeks,

apples give a pucker.

But a cake filled with cinnamon to pucker

up your lips.

Oh, tell me, how long

have I got to wait?

Oh, give me eleven, eleven, eleven, seven,

eleven.

Must I hesitate?