1. The Blues
10/24/2017

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Learning Objectives
To something something The Blues.

3. The Blues
The song structure of the blues seems to have originated in the Mississippi Delta in the late nineteenth century.
The term the blues, as in “having the blues,” comes from a centuries-old term for a state of melancholy.
Blues lyrics usually tell of some trouble, but often in a comical way.

4. The music
Blues music is usually set in twelve bars of music, in 4/4 time
the music often has a driving beat that is not unlike the heartbeat rhythm of iambic verse: da-DUM, da-DUM, da-DUM, da-DUM.

6. I’ll be glad when the sun goes down
I be so glad when the sun goes down
I ain't all that sleepy but I wanna lie down
I wanna lie down

8. Call and Response
In music, a call and response is a succession of two distinct phrases usually played by different musicians, where the second phrase is heard as a direct commentary on or response to the first.

9. Vera Hall, “Troubles So Hard”
Oh Lordy, trouble so hard
Don't nobody know my troubles but God

10. Worry Blues Some people say that the worry blues ain’t bad
But it’s the worst old feelin’ that I most ever had
Everything I do seem like I do it wrong (x2)
Sometime I regret that I was ever born

11. Lighthouse Blues My Sara got teeth like the lighthouse on the sea
Every time she smiles, the light all over me.

12. Riverside Blues
I ain't gon' to state no color, but her front teeth crowned with gold
I ain't gon' to state no color, but her front teeth is crowned with gold
She got a mortgage on my body, now, and a lien on my soul

13. Langston Hughes, Mornin’ After
I said, Baby! Baby!
Please don’t snore so loud.
Baby! Please!
You jest a little bit o’ woman but you
Sound like a great big crowd.