Emotions in English are strongly related to colors: green with envy, red with rage, white with anger, red or pink with embarrassment, blue with cold, rosy or peachy to indicate good fortune or optimism, yellow-belly which means coward in American English... And this post's protagonist: the Blues.
To have the blues, or to feel blue, means to be in a state of depression or melancholy. Also, Blues music has at its heart this idea of melancholy mixed with anger against slavery and humiliation, as it is associated with the blue color of the indigo plant, grown in many southern US slave plantations.
I'd like to present here one of my favorite jazzmen, Chet baker, who really had the blues deeply entrenched in his singing: The song that I post for you today is called Born to be Blue. Check out the lyrics below before or after you listen to it, to discover how he plays around with the colors that surround us in nature, and complete the missing words please!
Enjoy the jazz and happy (and not blue at all) new year!
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