CharliePoole New Lost City Ramblers

CharliePoole New Lost City Ramblers - Hesitation Blues guitar chord

Here are the lyrics from Charlie Poole:

Hesitation Blues (If the River Was Whiskey)-

Bluegrass Messengers

(Chords by: bluerabbit10-01-29-05)

Banjo tuning (bdgbd) Key of E (5th string up to B)(All verses same chords)

(E) If the river was whiskey and I was a duck

I'd dive to the bottom and I'd never come up

Oh, tell me how (B) long----- have I got to (E) wait

Oh, can I get you (B) now----- must I (E) hesitate?

(E) If the river was whiskey and the branch was wine

You would see me in bathing just any old time

Oh, tell me how (B) long---- have I got to (E) wait

Oh, can I get you (B)---- now, must I (E) hesitate?

I was born in England, raised in France

I ordered a suit of clothes and they wouldn't

send the pants.

Oh, tell me how long have I got to wait

Oh, can I get you now, must I hesitate?

I was born in Alabama, I’s raised in Tennessee

If you don't like my peaches, don't shake on my tree

Oh, tell me how long have I got to wait

Oh, can I get you now, must I hesitate?

I looked down the road just as far as I could see

A man had my woman and the blues had me

Oh, tell me how long have I got to wait

Oh, can I get you now, must I hesitate?

I ain't no doctor but the doctor's son

I can do the doct'rin' till the doctor comes

Oh, tell me how long have I got to wait

Oh, can I get you now, must I hesitate?

Got the hesitation stockings, the hesitation shoes

Believe to my Lord I've got the hesitation blues

Oh, tell me how long have I got to wait

Oh, can I get you now, must I hesitate?

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