Verb
(music) To sing in the style of blues music.
(idiomatic, by extension) To complain, especially in order to obtain sympathy for one's own purportedly sad situation.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgBlues is a natural fact, is something that a fellow lives. If you don't live it you don't have it. Young people have forgotten to cry the blues. Now they talk and get lawyers and things. Big Bill Broonzy