{"id":5178,"date":"2024-04-27T12:49:13","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T16:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=5178"},"modified":"2024-04-27T12:57:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T16:57:26","slug":"keep-your-hands-off-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/keep-your-hands-off-her\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep Your Hands Off Her\/Shake It and Break It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Keep Your Hands Off Her\/Shake It and Break It\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/08nqj1cbuHM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I learned &#8220;Keep Your Hands Off Her&#8221; very early, from an LP called <em>Folk Blues Song Fest <\/em>&#8212; I don&#8217;t remember when I got that record, but it was early enough that I was undoubtedly attracted more by the inclusion of Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston than the inclusion of Champion Jack Dupree or Arbee Stidham. It was also early enough that I learned a bunch of songs off it: this one, by Lead Belly, stuck with me, but for a while I also picked up &#8220;Fan It,&#8221; &#8220;Hush, <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5179\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/folk-blues-song-fest-e1714234634783.jpg?resize=272%2C270&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"272\" height=\"270\" \/>Somebody Is Calling Me,&#8221; &#8220;Beautiful City,&#8221; and &#8220;Face in the Crowd&#8221; &#8212; it would be at least another decade before I saw the Andy Griffith movie in which Brownie McGhee played a small part and realized he must have written that last song in hopes of it being used as the title theme. (I hadn&#8217;t thought of that song in years, but just ran over it in my mind and still remember the whole thing; I guess I&#8217;ll have to put it up here at some point.)<\/p>\n<p>I have a better sense of when I heard &#8220;Shake It and Break It,&#8221; because I didn&#8217;t turn on to Charlie Patton until I started buying the Yazoo reissues during my year of college in 1976-77, but I&#8217;m not sure when I learned it. Certainly, the spur for combining them was a workshop on playing in the key of F, conducted by Paul Geremia at the Augusta Heritage Center&#8217;s Blues Week in the early 1990s. <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5180 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Paul-Geremia-e1714235055672.jpg?resize=223%2C242&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"242\" \/>I&#8217;d never thought about F as a good key for blues &#8212; but this isn&#8217;t really blues, it&#8217;s ragtime, and these songs start on a C chord, and for all I know, Patton and Lead Belly thought of them as being in the key of C, if they bothered to think about things like that. Honestly, I don&#8217;t know if they both played this in F; I&#8217;m relying on Paul and my memory.<\/p>\n<p>Be that as it may, I played them both in F and that gave me my first taste of what a great key it is for ragtime\/pop songs &#8212; and then I married a clarinet player and got into flat keys, and by now I play dozens of songs in F&#8230; and this was where that started.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t remember when I combined these songs, but it&#8217;s been a few years, and after I started playing them together and saying I thought they were at some level versions of the same song, someone pointed out that Patton doesn&#8217;t actually play the chords I play&#8230; but they still feel to me like they fit together.<\/p>\n<p>I also like to think that &#8220;Keep Your Hands Off Her&#8221; can be understood as a kind of &#8220;me too&#8221; song &#8212; though I admit that&#8217;s a bit of a stretch &#8212; as well as a &#8220;body positivity&#8221; song, with that wonderful line: &#8220;She&#8217;s a heavy-hipped woman with great big legs, walks like she&#8217;s walking on soft-boiled eggs.&#8221; And, of course, I now consider all the &#8220;jelly&#8221; references in &#8220;Shake It&#8221; as part of my <em>Jelly Roll Blues<\/em> research&#8230; but mostly this is just fun to play and sing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learned &#8220;Keep Your Hands Off Her&#8221; very early, from an LP called Folk Blues Song Fest &#8212; I don&#8217;t remember when I got that record, but it was early enough that I was undoubtedly attracted more by the inclusion of Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston than the inclusion of Champion Jack Dupree or Arbee &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/keep-your-hands-off-her\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Keep Your Hands Off Her\/Shake It and Break It<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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