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They heard
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the breeze in the trees
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singing weird melodies
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And they named that
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the birth of the blues
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Then from a jail came the wail
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of a down -hearted frail
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And they named that
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the Birth of the Blue
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From a whippoorwill out on a hill
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 nose
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And then they nursed it,
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rehearsed it,
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and gave out the news
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That the Southland gave birth
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to the blues
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An d then they nested,
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rehearsed it,
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and gave out the news
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that the Southland gave
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birth to the blues.
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Gave birth to the blues
The Birth of The Blues (Radio Broadcast) (1948)
Al Jolson, Peggy Lee
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