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Bessie Smith: No time to...

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No time to marry, no time to settle down;
I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around.

Source: Young Woman's Blues, 1927.
-- Bessie Smith, (Apr 15 1894-1937), US blues singer, songwriter; The Queen of the Blues of 1920s-1930s recorded with most major jazz groups of her day; first recording Gulf Coast Blues, 1923.


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