New York, 1930: "Mood Indigo", composed for a radio broadcast by Duke Ellington and Barney Bigard, with lyrics by Irving Mills, will become a jazz standard in the 20th Century. According to Mills' lyrics, that poor guy in my drawing, who is lying on the track and waiting for a train, must be close to that mood indigo! 

("… 'Cause there's nobody who cares about me,
I'm just a soul who's
bluer than blue can be.
When I get that mood indigo,
I could lay me down and die…")