The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes
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EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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drone in a drowsy, syncopated tune, rocking back and forth to a mellow croon. I had a ***** played on on Lenox Avenue the other night by the pale, dull pallor of an old gaslight. He did a lazy sway. Mm hey did a lazy sway to the tomb of Those were blues with his Albany hands on each other key. He made that poor piano moan with the melody. Oh, blue! It's weighing two on the throw on his rickety stool. You play that sad rag attune like a musical fool. Sweet blues coming from a black man's soul. Old blues in a deep song voice with a melancholy tone. I heard that ***** sing that old piano moan and got nobody in all this world and got nobody but myself. I was gonna quit my frowning and put my troubles on the shelf, vied to the 90 croon That tone stars one out. So did the moon. The singer stopped playing and went to bed while the weary blues that go through his hand he slept like a rock or man that's dead