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- From: bscott@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ben Scott)
- Subject: Re: Blues Quotes
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.221711.13351@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Summary: Variations on a theme
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- References: <1h980mINNatv@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Dec28.044329.21871@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 22:17:11 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec28.044329.21871@beaver.cs.washington.edu> nick@skate.cs.washington.edu (Nicholas Kushmerick) writes:
- >In article <1h980mINNatv@agate.berkeley.edu>, chuahl@ocf.berkeley.edu (Chua HakLien) writes:
- >|> Any other good jazz/blues quotes? Can't find them in Bartlett's or Oxfords..
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- "I woke up this morning... then I went back to bed..." - Weird Al _Generic
- Blues_
-
- "I woke up this morning..." ( <- that's the entire song) _A Short Blues_,
- someone connected to Monty Python, perhaps Neil Innes?
-
- "My daddy was a waitress, my momma sold bathroom tile...
- My brothers and sisters all hated me, 'cause I was an only child.
- I got the bluuuuuuees, so badddd...." - Weird Al, _Generic Blues_
-
- . <<<<Infinite K>>>>
-
- "I know all about [exploitation]. I been exploited all my life." - Elwood
- Blues
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