Bessie Smith - Young Woman's Blues

No blues, as mulheres comuns, aquelas que são geralmente pouco articuladas exceto as musas de obras escritas, pinturas ou filmes, encontraram a sua voz: se Carmen tivesse falado por si mesma, ela não teria dito o que Merimée e Bizet disseram, mas o que disse Bessie Smith em Young Woman's Blues:

I´m a young woman, and I ain't done running round

Some people call me a hobo, some people call me a bum

Nobody knows my name, nobody knows what I've done.

I'm as good as any woman in your town:

I ain't no high yeller, I'm a deep yaller brown.

I ain't go to marry, ain't going to settle down

I'm going to drink good moonshine, and run these browns down.

See that long, lonesome road? Don't you know it's go to end.

And I'm a good woman and I can get plenty men.



(Eric J. Hobsbawn, História Social do Jazz, p. 129)