the birth of the blues – paul whiteman & his orchestra lyrics

oooh+ooh+ooh+ooh
breeze in the trees
singing weird melodies
and they made that the sound of the blues
and from a jail came the wail
of a down+hearted frail
and they played that as part of the blues

from the whippoorwill out on a hill
they took a new note
pushed it through a h+rn
till it was worn into a blue note
and then they nursed it, rehe+rs+d it
and gave out the news
that the southland gave birth to the blue+blue+blues