Key: Ab major
Verse 1
Ab
Eb
Ab
Eb
Ab
They say some people long,
Db
G
long ago
Ab
Db
Ab
Fm
Were looking for a different tune
Db
Dbm
Db
So they started swinging to and fro
Ab
Db
They wanted something
Eb
Ab
that they could grow
Cm
C
Bb
G
They didn't know
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Eb
Db
just what to use,
Ab
Fm
Eb
so this is how they started the blues.
Ab
Bbm
They heard the breeze in the trees,
Cb
Cm
Ab
singing weird melodies,
Db
Eb
and they made that
the start of the blues.
Ab
Bb
And from a jail came the wail
Cbdim
Cm
Ab
of a down -hearted frail
Db
Eb
Db
Cb
And they played that as
Eb
Ab
a part of the blues
Ah, they took a new note,
Eb
Ab
Fm
And then they nursed it,
Bbm
Eb
rehearsed it,
Ab
Db
and sent out the news
G
C
G
C
Oh they took a new note
F
G
Till it was born
F
Ab
G
In to a blue note
Eb
Db
Ab
Fm
And then they nursed it
F
Bbm
Ab
Rehearsed it
Eb
Ab
C
Db
An d then sent out the news
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Eb
That the south wind
Fm
Eb
They went to jail, got the whale
from a down -hearted frail
A new note was born
Edim
C
from the wail of a horn
Bbm
Fm
While he was swinging high on a hill
Bb
Ab
That's when the south wind
C
Ab
Oh, that good old south wind
C
Bb
That's when the south wind
Eb
Ab
Eb
Ab
Can 't break this old mood
Ab
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TunerE A D G B E
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