THE BIRTH OF
Words by B.G. DeSylva and Lew Brown
A Mickey McBride Arrangement
OH! ..........
THEY SAY SOME PEOPLE LONG AGO...
WERE SEARCHING FOR A DIFF’RENT TUNE,
ONE THAT THEY COULD CROON AS ONLY THEY CAN.......,
THEY ONLY HAD THE RHYTHM SO...........
THEY STARTED SWAYING TO AND FRO,
THEY DIDN’T KNOW JUST WHAT TO USE,
THIS IS HOW THE BLUES REALLY BEGAN,
THEY HEARD THE BREEZE IN THE TREES
SINGING WEIRD MELODIES,
AND THEY MADE THAT
THE START OF THE BLUES,
AND FROM A JAIL CAME THE WAIL
OF A DOWNHEARTED FRAIL,
AND THEY PLAYED THAT
AS PART OF THE BLUES,
FROM A WHIPPOORWILL OUT ON A HILL,
THEY TOOK A NEW NOTE,
PUSHED IT THROUGH A HORN ‘TIL IT WAS WORN
INTO A BLUE NOTE!
AND THEN THEY NURSED IT,
THEY REHEARSED IT,
AND GAVE OUT THE NEWS,
THAT THE SOUTHLAND GAVE BIRTH TO THE BLUES,
THEY TOOK THE BREEZE FROM THE TREES
MAKIN’ WEIRD MELODIES,
AND THEY MADE THAT
THE START OF THE BLUES,
AND FROM A JAIL, CAME THE WAIL
OF A DOWNHEARTED FRAIL,
AND THEY PLAYED THAT
AS PART OF THE BLUES,
NOW, FROM A WHIPPOORWILL SITTIN’ HIGH ON A HILL,
THEY TOOK A NEW NOTE,
PUSHED IT THROUGH A HORN ‘TIL IT WAS BORN
INTO A BLUE NOTE!
AND THEN THEY NURSED IT,
THEY REHEARSED IT,
AND GAVE OUT THE NEWS,
THAT THE SOUTHLAND GAVE BIRTH TO THE BLUES,
THEY NURSED IT,
AND THEN THEY REHEARSED IT,
THEN GAVE OUT THE NEWS,
THAT THE SOUTHLAND..... GAVE BIRTH TO THE BLUES.
THE BLUES
Music by Ray Henderson
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