The Birth Of The Blues-Various Artists

[ti:The Birth Of The Blues] [ar:Various Artists] [al:Pop Music: The Golden Era 1951-1975] [offset:0] [00:00.59]The Birth Of The Blues - Various Artists (欧美群星) [00:04.32]These are the blues, nothing but blues [00:14.50] [00:19.06]Oh, they say some people long ago [00:27.94] [00:30.00]Were searching for a diff'rent tune [00:33.89]One, that they could croon as only they can [00:39.36] [00:42.02]They only had the rhythm [00:46.01]So they started swaying to and fro [00:53.82] [00:55.05]They didn't know just what to use [00:58.39] [00:59.56]This is how the blues really began [01:05.54] [01:08.19]They heard the breeze in the trees [01:17.65] [01:19.31]Singing weird melodies [01:25.21] [01:25.85]And they made that, the start of the blues [01:34.29] [01:37.45]And from a jail came the wail of a down-hearted frail [01:50.76] [01:52.22]And they played that as a part of the blues [02:00.70] [02:04.55]From a whippoor will way upon a hill [02:09.89] [02:11.15]They took a new note [02:13.23] [02:16.98]Pushed it through a horn [02:20.68]Until it was worn into a blue note [02:25.76] [02:28.88]And then they nursed it [02:36.57] [02:37.51]They rehearsed it [02:39.76] [02:40.31]And then sent out that news [02:44.65] [02:46.20]That the Southland gave birth to the blues [02:57.08] [02:59.16]They nursed it [03:00.77] [03:02.03]Then they rehearsed it [03:04.73] [03:05.29]And they sent out that news [03:08.54] [03:09.06]That the Southland [03:13.82] [03:15.32]They gave birth to the blues [03:22.90]