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[00:00.00]Birth of the Blues - Gloria Lynne
[00:04.58]Oh they say some people long ago
[00:17.56]Were searchin' for a diff'rent tune
[00:21.53]One that they could croon
[00:27.01]As only they can
[00:34.20]They only had the rhythm so
[00:41.54]They started swayin' to and fro
[00:50.77]They didn't know just what to use
[00:59.18]That is how the blues
[01:10.32]Really began
[02:15.10]They heard the breeze in the trees
[02:16.82]Singin' weird melodies
[02:18.41]And they made that
[02:19.62]The start of the blues
[02:21.49]And from a jail came the wail
[02:23.21]Of a down-hearted frail
[02:24.91]And they played that
[02:26.20]As part of the blues
[02:28.05]From a whippoorwill out on the hill
[02:29.33]They took a new note
[02:31.02]Pushed it through a horn 'till it was worn
[02:32.61]Into a blue note
[02:33.96]An' then they nursed it and rehearsed it
[02:35.85]And gave out the news
[02:37.97]That the "Southland"
[02:38.74]Gave birth to the blues
[02:40.64]Oh the breeze from the trees
[02:42.41]A wail from the jail
[02:43.34]A buzz from the cousin of a nightin'gale
[02:45.00]And "Southland"
[02:45.46]To the blues