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Artist: Woody Guthrie
Canonical path: /guthrie-woody/hesitating-beauty
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Hesitating Beauty
Read Hesitating Beauty lyrics by Woody Guthrie on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Hesitating Beauty
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For your sparkling cocky smile
I have walked a million miles
Begging you to come wed me in the Spring
Why do you my dear delay
What makes you laugh and turn away?
You're a hesitating beauty Nora Lee
Well I know that you are itching to get married, Nora Lee
And I know I am twitching for the same thing, Nora Lee
By the star and clouds above
We can spend our lives in love
You're a hesitating beauty Nora Lee
We can build a house and home
Where the flowers come to bloom
Around our yard I'll nail a fence so high
That the boys with peeping eyes
Cannot see that angel face
Of my hesitating beauty, Nora Lee.
We can ramble hand in hand
Across the grasses of our land
I'll kiss you for each leaf on every tree
We can our kids to play
Where the dry winds blow today
If you'll quit your hesitating, Nora Lee
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Woody Guthrie performs "Hesitating Beauty", and this lyric page sits inside the Woody Guthrie catalog on LyroVerse.
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