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Thread #159805   Message #3787712
Posted By: GUEST,Joseph Scott
28-Apr-16 - 08:50 PM
Thread Name: 'Got the blues, too damn mean to cry'
Subject: RE: 'Got the blues, too damn mean to cry'
Singer and drummer Thomas Fletcher, who was born in about 1872, remembered this blues stanza in his 1954 book about the history of black show business:

"I've got the blues, but I'm too darn mean to cry
I've got the blues, but I'm too darn mean to cry
Before I cry I'd rather lay down and die."