The Weary Blues/Cabaret

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3868965The Weary Blues — CabaretJames Mercer Langston Hughes

CABARET

Does a jazz-band ever sob?
They say a jazz-band's gay.
Yet as the vulgar dancers whirled
And the wan night wore away,
One said she heard the jazz-band sob
When the little dawn was grey.