Telephone Arguin' Blues

DESCRIPTION: Singer can't connect with "that scheming sparrow of mine" because the lines are busy with so many people arguing. He tries Central. "I can't get no message on the phone no matter nowhere I go." "I picked up the 'ceiver I could not hear your voice"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1930 (recording, Jaydee Short)
KEYWORDS: technology ordeal nonballad lover
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RECORDINGS:
Jaydee Short, "Telephone Arguin' Blues" (Paramount 13043, 1930; as J.D. Short on USChartersHeroes)
NOTES [18 words]: Three line blues: the first line is repeated -- more or less -- and the last line completes the thought. - BS
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