White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.
Source: c. 1929; in Words to Make My Dream Children Live, by Deirdre Mullane, 1995.
-- Ma Rainey, (Apr 26 1886-1939), US blues singer; The Mother of the Blues, was the first great black professional blues vocalist; she played vaudeville and established a recording career, 1920s.