Birth Of The Blues chords by Keely Smith
Verse 1
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They say some people long,
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long, long ago
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Were looking for a different tune
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So they started swinging to and fro
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They wanted something
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that they could grow
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They didn't know just what to use,
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so this is how they started the blues.
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They heard the breeze in the trees,
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singing weird melodies,
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and they made that
the start of the blues.
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And from a jail came the wail
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of a down -hearted frail
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And they played that as a part of the blues
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From a whippoorwill high up on a hill
Ah, they took a new note,
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pushed it through a horn,
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till it was worn into a blue note.
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And then they nursed it,
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rehearsed it,
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and sent out the news that the Southland
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Gave birth to the blues
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From a whippoorwill
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High up on a hill
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Oh, they took a new note
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Pushed it through a horn
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Till it was sworn
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In to a blue note
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And then they nursed it
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Rehearsed it
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An d then sent out the news
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That the surf man
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gave birth to the blues
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They went to jail, got the whale
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from a down -hearted frail
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A new note was born
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from the whale of a horn
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Got a blue note from a whippoorwill
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While he was swinging high on a hill
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That's what the surf man
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Oh that good old surf man
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That's what the surf man
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Can't break this old mood
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Birth Of The Blues
Keely Smith
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