[00:00.00]The Birth of the Blues - Papa Bue's Viking Jazzband
[00:07.40]They heard the breeze
[00:10.74]In the trees
[00:12.76]Singing weird melodies
[00:16.62]
[00:17.48]And they named that
[00:19.87]
[00:21.40]The start of the blues
[00:24.26]
[00:25.46]And from a jail
[00:28.61]Came the wail
[00:30.46]
[00:30.98]Of a down-hearted frail
[00:34.51]
[00:35.52]And they played that
[00:38.12]
[00:39.47]As a part of the blues
[00:42.14]
[00:44.14]From a whippoorwill
[00:46.31]Out on a hill
[00:47.96]
[00:49.35]They took a new note
[00:51.29]
[00:53.26]Pushed it through a horn
[00:55.45]Till it was a worn
[00:57.73]Into a blue note
[01:00.28]
[01:02.69]And then they nursed it
[01:04.88]
[01:05.70]Rehearsed it
[01:06.96]
[01:08.39]Then gave out the news
[01:11.40]
[01:11.94]That the south land
[01:14.15]
[01:15.08]Gave birth to the blues
[01:23.37]
[02:01.42]From a whippoorwill
[02:03.30]Out on a hill
[02:05.16]
[02:05.91]They took a new note
[02:07.72]
[02:10.06]Pushed it through a horn
[02:12.36]Till it was a worn
[02:13.99]
[02:14.53]Into a blue note
[02:17.19]
[02:18.49]And they nursed it
[02:20.82]
[02:21.99]Rehearsed it
[02:23.32]
[02:25.20]Then gave out the news
[02:27.65]
[02:28.47]That the south land
[02:30.41]
[02:31.72]Gave birth to the blues
[02:35.89]
[02:37.31]And that the southland gave birth to the blues