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GUEST,Joseph Scott 'Got the blues, too damn mean to cry' (30) RE: 'Got the blues, too damn mean to cry' 28 Apr 16

Looks like during 1912 on, "The blues ain't nothing but..." was very popular. But we don't have evidence for it as early as 1908 or earlier as we do for both "mean to cry" and "satisfied."

BTW those "adjective blues" in which someone in the lyrics has the "railroad blues" or the like, those seem to have come in during the 1910s, don't seem to have been around yet in blues as of about 1908.

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