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This is one of the earliest blues songs, sung in honky-tonks (bars) in the United States Southwest. (source: Sandburg)
Lyrics
(Folk song)
Got dem blues but I’m too mean, lordy,
I’m just too mean* to cry.
Spoken: Oh, I got dem blues.
Got dem blues but I’m just too mean to cry.
Yes, I got dem dirty blues,
But I’m just too mean to cry,
Yes, mean to cry.
*original lyrics: too damn mean
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- Type: blues
- Harmony: chords I, IV, V
- Meter: 4
- Rhythm: ties
- Scale: blues
- Source: The American Songbag, Carl Sandburg, Harcourt Brace and Company, 1927
YouTube
- PDF of song with chords
- MIDI file
- Listen to the melody
