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Thread #159805 Message #3787633
Posted By: GUEST,Joseph Scott
28-Apr-16 - 01:34 PM
Thread Name: 'Got the blues, too damn mean to cry'
Subject: RE: 'Got the blues, too damn mean to cry'
More from 1915-1916, all from different black singers, in Newman White 1928:
Five variants of "The blues ain't nothing but a...."
Five variants of "Some folks say the __ blues ain't bad."
Two variants of "When a woman gets the blues, she hangs her head and cries."
Two variants of "If the blues was whiskey, I'd stay drunk all the time."