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Article: Bluesman's legacy lives on in hometown of Wortham, Texas.

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The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
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May 8, 2006
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Byline: John Pronk

"Lord it's one kind favor I'll ask of you/See that my grave is kept clean."

_Blind Lemon Jefferson

___

WORTHAM, Texas _ The words of the legendary Texas bluesman intrigue me, mystify me, haunt me. Why would he pen such a phrase?

This is a man who surely knew all about mortality, and wondered about his immortality.

I was driving south of Corsicana, Texas, heading somewhere else, not to Wortham. After all it's just a small farming town. A red light or two, and that's about it.

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