The Birth Of The Blues

The Birth Of The Blues - Jack Teagarden

Oh they say some dark is along ago

Were searching for a different tune

One that they could croon

As only they can

They only had the rhythm

So they started swingin' to and fro

They didn't know just what to use

That is how the blues

Really began

They heard the breeze

In the trees

Singing weird melodies

And they played that

As the start of the blues

And from a jail

Came a wail

Of a down-hearted frail

And they played that

As a part of the blues

From a whippoorwill

Out on a hill

They took a new note

Pushed it through a horn

Till it was a worn

Into a blue note

And then they nursed it

They rehearsed it

And gave out the new

That the south land

Gave birth to the blues

And then they nursed it

Rehearsed it

Gave out the good news

That the southland gave birth to the blues

The birth of the blues