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walk — ритм в четыре четверти.

waters — (1940-e) обувь, туфли.

WPA — Work Projects (Progress) Administration — организация, занимавшаяся трудоустройством безработных ("Eve'ry one's working in this town / And it worries me night and day / It's that house wrecking crew / That works for the W.P.A." — Lester Melrose and William Weldon, W.P.A. Blues; см тж Langstone Hughes, Out of Work).

you's a mess — ну, ты даешь.

yas yas yas — ритмический эвфемизм слова ass, жопа (10-е — 20-е годы). ("Mama bought a rooster, she thought it was a duck / She brought him to the table with his legs straight up / In came the children with a cup and a glass / to catch the liquid from the yas-yas-yas" — "Me and my gal walkin' down the street / She caught the rheumatism in her feet / She stooped over to pick some grass / And the same thing struck 'r in the yas-yas-yas" — "You shake your shoulders, you shake 'em fast / You can't shake your shoulders shake your yas-yas-yas" — Tampa Red, The Duck Yas-Yas-Yas; см тж Lil Johnson, Rug Cutter's Function & Sam, The Hot Dog Man; Memphis Minnie, New Dirty Dozen; Blind Boy Fuller, Get Yer Yas Yas Out (Of the Door); кстати, Rolling Stones позаимствовали последнее название для своего живого альбома, "Get Yer Ya Yas Out").