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Grape Juice Hesitation Blues

from Five Cent Piece by Randy Kaplan

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"Grape Juice Hesitation Blues" — Traditional / additional lyrics by Randy Kaplan

If the river was grape juice and I was a duck
I’d dive to the bottom and I’d never come up
Tell me, how long do I have to wait?
Can I get some grape juice now or do I have to wait?

If the river were grape juice, you know, the purple kind?
You could catch me swimmin’ in it anytime
Tell me, how long do I have to wait?
Can I get some grape juice now or do I have to wait?

I was born in Alabama but raised in Tennessee
If you don’t like my peaches don’t shake my tree
Tell me, how long do I have to wait?
Can I get some peach juice now or do I have to wait?

A nickel is a nickel and a dime is a dime
I got a house full of children, not one of them mine
Tell me, how long do I have to wait?
Can I get some coconut juice now or do I have to wait?

I was standing on the corner, looking as far as I could see
Some other man’s got my girl and blues got me
Tell me, how long do I have to wait?
Can I get some blueberry juice now or must I hesitate?

I got the hesitation socks, I got the hesitation shoes
I believe to my soul I got the hesitation blues
Tell me, how long must I have to wait?
Can I get some carrot-apple-beet-ginger juice now?
How about some wheatgrass juice?
Mosquito juice?
Dinosaur juice?
Kiwi juice?
Okay, can I get some grape juice now or must I have to wait?

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from Five Cent Piece, released October 30, 2006

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Randy Kaplan Detroit, Michigan

ADULTS: Nashville Blues & Roots Alliance calls Randy “a master of old-time, Delta-influenced guitar,” and the Smoky Mountain Blues Society says he’s “an absolute ace guitarist, picker, and ragtime player.”

KIDS: Randy's blend of American Roots Music and Comedic Storytelling has inspired the likes of NPR and PEOPLE magazine to name Randy one of the nation’s top family entertainers.
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