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User Name | Thread Name | Subject | Posted |
Sandy Paton | Lyr Req: Worried Man Blues (44) | RE: it takes a worried man | 23 Dec 99 |
My father told me (and sang a brief example of it, too) that he had heard black roustabouts (laborers) singing "Takes a wearied man to sing a wearied song" in the Oklahoma oil fields when he was roughnecking there, circa 1920. Long, slow, and drawn out, he sang it, like a prison worksong. Sounded real to me! |