Birth Of The Blues
(B. G. DaSylva / Lew Brown / Ray Henderson - Arr. by Ko-Do 2012)



They heard the breeze in the trees
Singing weird melodies
And they made that the start of the blues

And from a jail came a wail
Of a down-hearted 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 till it was worn into a blue note

And then they nursed it they rehearsed it
And then they gave out the news
That the Southland gave birth to the blues