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Now, whoever said a good man
was hard to find, positively absolute less

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sure was lying, because I just
found the best man that ever was.

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And here's just a few other things
that he does out He shakes my ashes,

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greases my griddle. Hello, I'm
Gael Nobles. Welcome to Podcasting Blues.

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Today's topic is Alberta Hunter. The
words that you have heard me say

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from the beginning comes from Alberta's track
My Handyman Ain't handy no More. She's

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singing about how her man takes care
of her household, chores and fixes things.

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He does everything for her, but
the title of the song is saying

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that the man is not handy no
more. So in the title it sounds

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as if Alberta is saying that he
is no longer able to do all of

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those things he has done. But
in the song there is no frustration or

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disappointment having someone to rely on,
so she could also be saying that he's

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more to her than a handyman.
Alberta Hunter was a jazz and blues singer

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and songwriter from the early nineteen twenties
to the late nineteen fifties. After twenty

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years of working as a nurse,
Hunter resumed her singing career in nineteen seventy

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seven. She lived to get eighty
nine years old. I'm Gail Nobles.

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