Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers — If the River Was Whiskey

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 long have I got to wait? Oh, can I get you now, must I hesitate? If the river was whiskey and the branch was wine You would see me in bathing just any old time Oh, tell me how long have I got to wait? Oh, can I get you now, must I 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 was 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?