The Birth Of The Blues-Bing Crosby/Helen Forrest

[ti:The Birth Of The Blues] [ar:Bing Crosby/Helen Forrest] [al:The Best Things In Life Are Free - The Ray Henderson Songbook] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Birth Of The Blues - Bing Crosby (平克·劳斯)/Helen Forrest [00:11.61]Oh they say some darkness long ago [00:17.34] [00:18.07]Were searching for a diff'rent tune [00:20.95]One that they could croon [00:22.30]As only they can [00:24.63] [00:25.58]They only had the rhythm so [00:28.59] [00:29.33]They started swaying to and fro [00:32.36] [00:33.42]They didn't know just what they to you [00:35.98]And that is how the blues really began [00:40.49] [00:41.09]They heard the breeze in the trees [00:45.65]Singing weird melodies [00:49.62]And they played that [00:52.82]As the start of the blues [00:55.80] [01:01.50]And from a jail came the wail [01:04.08] [01:04.68]Of a down hearted frail [01:08.48]And they played that [01:11.83]As part of the blues [01:14.77] [01:15.97]From a whippoorwill out on a hill [01:20.09]They took a new note [01:23.41]Pushed it through a horn 'til it was born [01:26.81] [01:27.66]Into a blue note [01:30.79]And then they nursed it rehearsed it [01:35.30] [01:36.32]And gave out the news [01:39.15]That the south land [01:41.85] [01:42.57]Gave birth to the blues [01:45.10] [02:46.15]And then they nursed it rehearsed it [02:50.73] [02:51.63]And gave out the good news [02:54.42]That the south land [02:57.45]Gave birth to the blues [03:00.47] [03:07.47]The birth to the blues