Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Birth Of The Blues, artist - Benny Carter. Album song 3,4,5 The Verve Small Group Sessions, in the genre Традиционный джаз
Date of issue: 31.12.1990
Record label: The Verve, Universal Music
Song language: English
The Birth Of The Blues |
Oh! |
they say some people long ago |
Were searching for a diff’rent tune, |
One that they could croon |
As only they can. |
They only had the rhythm so They started swaying to and fro. |
They didn’t know just what they had |
And that is how the blues really began: |
They heard the breeze in the trees |
Singing weird melodies |
And they made that |
The start of the blues. |
And from a jail came the wail |
Of a down hearted frail, |
And they played that |
As part of the blues. |
From a whippoorwill out on a hill, |
They took a new note, |
Pushed it through a horn |
'til it was born into a blue note. |
And then they nursed it, rehearsed it, |
And gave out the news |
That the southland |
Gave birth to the blues! |