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White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.

Source: c. 1929; in Words to Make My Dream Children Live, by Deirdre Mullane, 1995.
-- Ma Rainey, (Apr 26 1886-1939), US blues singer; The Mother of the Blues, was the first great black professional blues vocalist; she played vaudeville and established a recording career, 1920s.

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