Lyrics The Birth of the Blues - Sammy Davis, Jr., Sammy Davis Jr. Featuring Sam Butera & The Witnesses

The Birth of the Blues

Oh,… they say my people long ago
Where lookin' for a different tune
One that we can croon
As only we can
We only had the rhythm
So, we started swingin' to and fro
We didn’t know just what to use
But this is how the blues
I said the blues really began
Ohhh yeah
We.heard… the breeze
Through the trees
Singing weird melodies
And we named that the start of the blues
Then from a jail
There came a whale
From a down-hearted frail
And we played that
To be a part of our blues
From a whippoorwill
High on a hill
They took a new note
Pushed it through a horn
Till it was worn into a blue note
You better believed me we nursed it
And we rehearsed it
Than we gave out the news
That the South Land, gave birth to the Blues