Birth Of The Blues

W: B.G. DeSylva & Lew Brown
M: Ray Henderson

They heard the breeze
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in the trees sing-ing weird mel-o-dies
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And they made that the start of the blues
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And from a jail came the wail
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of a down-heart-ed frail
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And they played that as part of the blues
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From a whip-poor-will out on a hill
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they took a new note
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Pushed it through a horn
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till it was worn in-to a blue note
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And then they nursed it re-hearsed it
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and gave out the news
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That the south-land
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gave birth to the blues
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