A new(?), old-time pronunciation

[Wilson Gray]

"Look-a here, boy!
Somp'm you ain't seen.
A man playin' jazz
On his _vie-leen_ [violin]."

Mississippi Sheiks: "The Jazz Violin"

-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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-Mark Twain

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