en in the 1-4-5 format, meaning a musician would start on the first note of whatever key he happens to be in, then change to the fourth note of the key, and then go up one more to the fifth, only to come back to the first. The stereotypical blues song tells a story of woe, explaining why the performer is singing the blues in the first place. "The subject might be a lost lover or job, or simply general desperation." (Hanning 522 They usually start with a line like "Woke up this morning, my woman was gone" or "Got drunk last night, now I'm missin' a toe." And you will almost always hear the line "I got the __________ blues&q
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