Birth Of The Blues (The Big Ben Show, 1982) (Live - Remastered 2023)

Birth Of The Blues (The Big Ben Show, 1982) (Live - Remastered 2023) - Matt Monro

Lyrics by：Lew Brown/Ray Henderson/George Gard DeSylva

Composed by：Lew Brown/Ray Henderson/George Gard DeSylva

Oh they say some people long ago

Were searching for a different 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 they used

That 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 this down down hearted frail

And they played that

As part of the blues

From a whippoorwill seping out on a hill

They took a new note

And they pushed it through a horn

'Til it was born into a blue note

And then they nursed it rehearsed it

And there said out the news

That the southland

Gave birth to the blues

You say nursed it

And then they nursed it

And this said out the news

That that old southland

Gave birth to the blues

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