The Weary Blues
While the Weary Blues echoed through his head.
O Blues!
Down on Lenox Avenue the other night
And cant be satisfied--
"I got the Weary Blues
O Blues!
And far into the night he crooned that tune.
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He did a lazy sway ....
Thump, thump, thump, went his foot on the floor.
He played a few chords then he sang some more--
And I wish that I had died."
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He made that poor piano moan with melody.
He played that sad raggy tune like a musical fool.
With his ebony hands on each ivory key
Got the Weary Blues
I aint happy no mo
By the pale dull pallor of an old gas
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He slept like a rock or a man thats dead.
And I cant be satisfied.
Droning a drowsy syncopated tune,
Coming from a black mans soul.
Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon,
The stars went out and soread•99csw•com did the moon.
I heard that Negro sing, that old piano moan--
He did a lazy sway ....
The Weary Blues
To the tune o those Weary Blues.
Is gwine to quit ma frownin
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Swaread.99csw.comying to and fro on his rickety stool
Sweet Blues!
In a deep song voice with a melancholy tone
And put ma troubles on the shelf."
"Aint got nobody in all this world,
I heard a Negro play.
Aint got nobody but ma self.