Birth of The Blues
Verse 1
[A7] [Ab7] [G7] [C] [Dm7]
They heard the breeze in the trees,
[G7] [C] [E7] [F] [D7]
singing weird melodies
[G7]
And they made that, the start of the
[C] [Ab7] [G7]
blues
[G7] [Gb7] [F7] [C] [Dm7] [G7]
And from a jail came the wail of a
[C] [E7] [F]
downhearted frail
[D7] [G7]
And they played that as part of the
[C] [Fm] [C]
blues
Bridge
[C] [E7]
From a whippoorwill, out on a hill they took a new note
[A7] [Am7]
Pushed it through a horn till it was born into a
[D7] [G7]
blue note
[G7] [Gb7] [F7] [C] [Am] [Dm] [G7] [C]
And then they nursed it, rehearsed it and gave
[E7] [F] [E7]
out the news
[G7]
That the Southland, gave birth to the
[C] [F] [C]
blues
Bridge 2
[C] [E7]
From a whippoorwill, out on a hill they took a new note
[A7] [Am7]
Pushed it through a horn till it was born into a
[D7] [G7]
blue note
Verse 2
[Gb7] [F7] [C] [Am] [Dm] [G7] [C]
And then they nursed it, rehearsed it and gave
[E7] [F]
out the news
[G7]
That the Southland, gave birth to the
[C] [B] [Bb] [A7]
blues
[D7] [G7]
That the Southland, gave birth to the
[C] [C7] [F] [Fm] [C] [G] [C]
blues
