The Birth Of The Blues-Frank Sinatra

[ti:The Birth Of The Blues] [ar:Frank Sinatra] [al:The Best Of The Columbia ] [offset:0] [00:01.12]The Birth Of The Blues [00:02.68]Frank Sinatra [00:03.56] [00:04.81]These are the blues [00:06.93] [00:10.73]Nothing but blues [00:14.66] [00:19.84]Oh they say some people long ago [00:27.89] [00:31.01]Were searching for a diffrent tune [00:34.88]One that they could croon [00:37.50]As only they can [00:39.19] [00:42.62]They only had the rhythm [00:45.93]They started swaying to and fro [00:55.54]They didn't know just what to use [00:59.53]That is how the blues really began [01:04.40] [01:08.52]They heard the breeze in the trees [01:17.88] [01:19.69]Singing weird melodies [01:25.36] [01:26.24]And they made that the start of the blues [01:34.29] [01:38.16]And from a jail came the wail [01:44.40]Of a down-hearted frail [01:53.51]And they played that [01:57.94]As part of the blues [02:04.24] [02:05.18]From a whippoorwill [02:07.36] [02:09.04]Way up on a hill [02:10.60] [02:11.42]They took a new note [02:13.41] [02:17.34]Pushed it through a horn [02:19.28] [02:21.09]Until it was worn [02:22.27] [02:23.46]Into a blue note [02:25.64] [02:29.32]And then they nursed it [02:36.50] [02:37.56]They rehearsed it [02:39.70] [02:40.57]And then sent out that news [02:45.19] [02:46.63]That the Southland gave birth to the blues [02:55.42]They nursed it [03:02.47]And they rehearsed it [03:05.66]And that the Southland they gave birth to the blues [03:19.82]