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[robinturner]

Do any bluesologists here knwo who originally wrote this?

Trouble in mind, and blue,
But I won't be blue always,
Cause the sun's gonna shine through
My back door some day.

I'm gonna lay my head
On some lonesome railroad line,
And let that midnight freight train
Pacify my mind.

Apart from being one of my favourite songs, I was thinking of quoting it in a paper on Epicurus (he defines pleasure as "the ansence of pain in the body and trouble in the soul").

Comments

[hyperina.livejournal.com]

Richard M. Jones
1924
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[solri.livejournal.com]

Hey, that's my lemur!

Thanks

[oblomova.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine paraphrased Epicurus thusly: Happiness is knowing you're not being hurt or killed.

[solri.livejournal.com]

I'd say it was knowing you're not being hurt, and not worrying about whether you're being killed. "Where I am, death is not; where death is, I am not."