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Excerpt from Father of the Blues: An Autobiography Though it turns out that I had no choice in the matter, I regarded myself as a discoverer in those days. Accordingly, when twenty-seven years later I found myself sitting by the composer at the Library of Congress, as he signed the copy right renewal application that brought his wandering tune home to his hands, I felt that I, too, had been somewhere and got back. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.