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Hollers and Blues
Blues jumped a rabbit and run him for a solid mile. When the blues overtook him, he cried like a baby child.
6 When a woman gets the blues, she hang her head and cry, Doggone my soul, hey, Lordy, Lordy, Woman get the blues, she hang her head and cry, When a man gets the blues he catch that train and rides.
I'M A STRANGER HERE
/. No. 541. Ace. on guitar and sung- by Mrs. Louise Henson, San Antonio, Texas, 1937.
They say Bix Beiderbecke has been the only white man who could sing the blues. We submit that this is a limited view, for the blues have been for some time common property of Negro and white singers, although the crea­tive source has been with the Negroes until recently. The two following tunes of Mrs. Henson's, a San Antonio "hill-billy" singer, are of Negro deriva­tion 3 yet despite their texts they show a developing quality quite their own.