"Oh aint I got the Blues!" is a song and dance tune written by A.A. Chapman and published in 1871. In the song the dancer is bemoaning how unlucky he is. Each verse ends with the

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Oh aint I got the blues! My sadness you'd excuse, If you knew like me what 'tis to have Such a terrible fit of the blues.Chapman, A.A.; "Oh aint I got the Blues!" (sheet music). Brooklyn, NY: J.W. Smith, Jr. (1871)

The chorus ends with a short dance routine. The earliest sheet music identifies it as performed by the ''Welch, Hughes & White's Minstrels''. "Oh aint I got the Blues!" is often cited as being one of the early "

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"-titled songs.

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