Oh aint I got the Blues!
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"Oh aint I got the Blues!" is a song and dance tune written by A.A. Chapman and published in 1871. In the song the dancer is bemoaning how unlucky he is. Each verse ends with the chorurs:
The chorus ends with a short dance routine.
The earliest sheet music identifies it as performed by the Welch, Hughes & White's Minstrels.
"Oh aint I got the Blues!" is often cited as being one of the early "blues
"-titled songs.
- Oh aint I got the blues!
- My sadness you'd excuse,
- If you knew like me what 'tis to have
- Such a terrible fit of the blues.
The chorus ends with a short dance routine.
The earliest sheet music identifies it as performed by the Welch, Hughes & White's Minstrels.
"Oh aint I got the Blues!" is often cited as being one of the early "blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
"-titled songs.
External links
- "Oh aint I got the Blues!" Library of Congress.