Sometimes I feel like nothin,' somethin' throwed away,
Somethin' throwed away.
And then I get my guitar, play the blues all day.
Source: Joe Turner Blues, 1915.
-- W C Handy, (Nov 16 1873-1958), US composer, singer; The Father of the Blues integrated the blues idiom into the then-fashionable ragtime; composed the classic St. Louis Blues.