Can white girls sing the blues?

白人女孩会唱蓝调吗？

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Some husbands always sing the blues about how much housework their wives leave with them.

一些丈夫总是抱怨老婆留给他们的家务活太多。

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I just spent two hours listening to Bill sing the blues about his girl friend leaving him for some other guy.

我花了两个小时倾听拜耳诉说他女朋友为了另一个家伙而离开他的痛苦的事情。

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She heard Bessie Smith sing the blues.

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Although her father encouraged Koko to pursue gospel music, she would sneak out of the house, and sing the blues with her brothers accompanying her on homemade instruments.

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And when I finished, he says to me, he says, 'My God, I ain't never heard a woman sing the blues like you sing the blues before in my life.

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This is one of the main reasons why so many blacks bristle at the comparison of the two movements -- everybody wants to sing the blues, nobody wants to live them.

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Bessie Smith's version of St Louis Blues was even filmed in a kind of predecessor of today's music videos - she acts out the part of a woman knocked to the ground by a two-timing boyfriend, and then moves to a bar to sing the blues.

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