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Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance" is a song recorded by
Henry ThomasHenry Thomas was an American pre-World War II country blues singer, songster and musician. He was often billed as "Ragtime Texas."...
in 1927. The song was covered by
Bob DylanBob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet and painter who has been a major figure in popular music for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was, at first, an informal chronicler and then an apparently reluctant figurehead of social unrest...
on his 1963 album
The Freewheelin' Bob DylanThe Freewheelin' Bob Dylan is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's second studio album, released in May 1963 by Columbia Records.Dylan's debut album, Bob Dylan, had featured just two original songs. Freewheelin' contained just two covers, the traditional tune "Corrina, Corrina", and "Honey, Just Allow Me...
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Origin Jazz LibraryOrigin Jazz Library is a record label set up in 1960 by Bill Givens and Pete Whelan. It specializes in early American blues, jazz and western swing music....
released the album
Henry Thomas Sing the Texas Blues in 1961 or 1962. The album included Thomas's recording "Honey, Won't You Allow Me One More Chance?" and was probably the source of Dylan's version.
Todd Harvey, in his book
The Formative Dylan: Transmission & Stylistic Influences, 1961–1963, analyses how Dylan dropped Thomas's verses, and adapted his choruses, utilising Thomas's AAAC rhyming structure and four 4-bar phrases in 2/4 time.
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"
Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance" is a song recorded by
Henry ThomasHenry Thomas was an American pre-World War II country blues singer, songster and musician. He was often billed as "Ragtime Texas."...
in 1927. The song was covered by
Bob DylanBob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet and painter who has been a major figure in popular music for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was, at first, an informal chronicler and then an apparently reluctant figurehead of social unrest...
on his 1963 album
The Freewheelin' Bob DylanThe Freewheelin' Bob Dylan is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's second studio album, released in May 1963 by Columbia Records.Dylan's debut album, Bob Dylan, had featured just two original songs. Freewheelin' contained just two covers, the traditional tune "Corrina, Corrina", and "Honey, Just Allow Me...
.
The
Origin Jazz LibraryOrigin Jazz Library is a record label set up in 1960 by Bill Givens and Pete Whelan. It specializes in early American blues, jazz and western swing music....
released the album
Henry Thomas Sing the Texas Blues in 1961 or 1962. The album included Thomas's recording "Honey, Won't You Allow Me One More Chance?" and was probably the source of Dylan's version.
Todd Harvey, in his book
The Formative Dylan: Transmission & Stylistic Influences, 1961–1963, analyses how Dylan dropped Thomas's verses, and adapted his choruses, utilising 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."