Robin Hood Oh Babe-Louis Prima

[ti:The Birth of the Blues] [ar:Keely Smith] [al:The Songs of Keely Smith, Vol. 2] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Robin Hood Oh Babe - Louis Prima [00:06.57]They say some people long long long ago [00:10.79] [00:11.76]Were looking for a diffrent tune [00:15.94] [00:16.64]So they started swaying to and fro [00:20.32] [00:20.98]They want something that's good good [00:26.53]They didn't know just what to use [00:30.98]So this is how they started the blues [00:34.21]They heard the breeze in the trees [00:40.65]Singing weird melodies [00:45.61]And they made that the start of the blues [00:53.89]And from a jail came the wail [00:59.02]Of a down-hearted frail [01:03.79]And they played that [01:07.37]As a part of the blues [01:11.34] [01:12.08]From a whippoorwill [01:14.36]High up on a hill [01:17.03] [01:18.54]They took a new note [01:21.96]Pushed it through a horn [01:24.50]Till it was worn [01:27.54]Into a blue note [01:31.32]And then they nursed it [01:35.76]Rehearsed it [01:38.33]And sent out that news [01:42.92]That the Southland gave birth to the blues [01:49.63] [01:50.44]From a whippoorwill [01:51.64] [01:52.31]High up on a hill [01:53.49] [01:54.14]They took a new note [01:56.41] [01:57.28]Pushed it through a horn [01:58.96]Till it was worn [02:00.72]Into a blue note [02:03.16]And then they nursed it [02:06.20] [02:07.90]Rehearsed it [02:08.83] [02:10.35]And then sent out the news [02:14.47]That the Southland gave birth to the blues [02:22.36]They went to jail got the wail [02:24.08]From a down-hearted frail [02:25.44]And you know the sponserman William horn [02:27.71]Got blue not from a whippoorwill [02:29.80]Why he was swaying [02:30.83]High up on a hill [02:31.89]That's Southland oh that's good Southland [02:35.59]That's Southland gave birth to the blues