Key: B major
Verse 1
B
F#
B
A#aug
F#
These are
B
F#
B
E
the blues
B
E
B
Nothing but blues
Em
C
Verse 2
B
F#
A
Oh, they say some people long
ago
G
F#
Were searching for a diffrent tune
Gdim
G
F#
One that they could croon
G
F#
B
As only they can
G#
Ddim
F#
B
They only had the rhythm
Verse 3
B
A
an d fro
G
F#
They didn't know just what to use
G
F#
B
G
That is how the blues really began
B
G#
G
They heard
Verse 4
F#
B
the breeze
Am
B
C#
in the trees
Ddim
B
Em
E
Singing weird melodies
Fdim
F#
Edim
F#
And they made that
Gdim
F#
B
the start, the start of the blues
G
F#
And from a
Verse 5
B
D#dim
C#m
Ddim
jail came the wail
A#
B
D#
Of a down-hearted frail
Em
E
A#
frail
C#
F#
And they played that
Verse 6
D#
A#m
D#
Way up on a hill
A#m
D#
Edim
They took a new note
D#
G#
Pushed it through a horn
Until it was worn
C#
Fdim
Into a blue note
F#
G#
G
F#
An d then
Verse 7
B
Cdim
they nursed it
C#m
C#
Ddim
They rehearsed it
B
D#
E
And then sent out that news
Fdim
F#
That the Southland gave birth
D#dim
G#
D#dim
G#
to the blues
Verse 8
Fdim
F#
And they rehearsed it
A
G#
D#
D#
C#m
F#
That the Southland they
B
Fdim
B
Faug
gave birth to the blues
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