Chords for Reverend Gary Davis - Hesitation Blues

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_ [A] I woke up this [Em] morning, you know, just about half past [B] four.
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[Em] Hesitating dudes was knocking on my [C] door.
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[F] Give me how long?
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[E] I had to wait.
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_ [C] _ [G] Can you get me out of bed?
_ _ I was [C] standing _ _ [F] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [Am] _ _ on the corner one morning with a dollar in my hand.
I was looking for the first woman to come along that didn't have no man.
[C] Give [A#] me how long?
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[F] I had to [E] wait.
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_ _ Can you get me out of bed?
_ _ _ [F#] You guys can hesitate?
I'm not going to get out of bed.
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[C] That's [F] where you all get to [C] learn, [G] you _ [A] understand?
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That's where you get your learning, see? _
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[A#] _ [G] You get out in the public, you know.
[D] _ _ [Em] _ [A] Learn how to do it.
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[G] I [E] got hesitating shoes and hesitating stockings.
I got me a good [Em] hesitating woman to do my hesitating [C] rocking. _
[F] Give me how long? _ _
You [C] guys hesitate?
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_ _ [G] [D] Can you get me out of bed?
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[C] Here's [F] a pie bag, you know, going [D] around to everybody's house,
trying to break [A] up everybody's [E] home. _
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[C] You [F] see a pie bag, here's [Em] what you tell them, you [G] know.
_ [A] I ain't no preacher, need no preacher's [Em] son,
[E] but I can preach a few sermons [Em] until the preacher comes.
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[Dm] Give me how long?
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_ _ _ You're winning four for that college [C] job, you know.
[D] Break [C] up your good home.
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[G] _ [A] I ain't no [E] _
rent payer, need no rent payer's son,
but I can pay a few [B] rents until [C] the rent payer comes.
Give me [F] how long? _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ [G] _
_ _ Can I get you out? _
_ _ [C] You have to hesitate.
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_ [A] Well, I ain't never been to [B] heaven, but [A] I've been told.
[Em] Said Saint [A] Peter taught the angels [Em] how to do the jelly [C] roll.
_ [Dm] How, sir?
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[A] Well, I hit up [E] my mule in my mule and pull,
and took the harness off the mule [B] and put the harness [G] on the bull.
Tell me how?
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[C] _ [F] You had a crooked woman, [C] you know.
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_ [E] I was out on my wagon, you know, trying to sell some coal.
My gal was sleeping around the [Em] corner doing her best to [C] sell some jelly.
Jelly.
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_ _ [G] Jelly all day.
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