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"Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance" is a song recorded by
blues music Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the Afr ...
ian Henry "Ragtime Texas" Thomas in 1927, under the title "Honey, Won't You Allow Me One More Chance". It was
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by
Bob Dylan Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. Often regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture during a career sp ...
on his album ''
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan ''The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan'' is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on May 27, 1963 by Columbia Records. Whereas his self-titled debut album ''Bob Dylan'' had contained only two original songs, this album ...
'', which came out on May 27, 1963. In 1962, Origin Jazz Library released the album ''Henry Thomas Sings the Texas Blues''. It included his "Honey, Won't You Allow Me One More Chance", which was presumably the source of Dylan's version. Todd Harvey, in his book ''The Formative Dylan: Transmission and Stylistic Influences, 19611963'', analyzes how Dylan dropped Thomas's verses, and adapted his choruses, utilizing Thomas's AAAC rhyming structure and four 4-bar phrases in 2/4 time. Harvey writes: "The text of Thomas's chorus remained constant throughout the song. Dylan wrote, for the most part, new text resulting in a four bar phrase verse with the fourth phrase acting as a refrain. He increased Thomas's tempo and added his own guitar accompaniment, placing harmonica solos between verses."


Recordings

* 1927Henry Thomas, 78 rpm Vocalion 1141 * 1963Bob Dylan, on the album ''The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan'' * 1970
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, on the album ''Final Fling'' * 2000Fernando Goin, on the album ''Mystery Train'' * 2011 - Rory Mcleod, on BCC Radio 2's album ''The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan: A Folk Tribute''


References

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