The Birth of the Blues-Louis Prima

[ti:The Birth Of the Blues (1999 Digital Remaster)] [ar:Louis Prima] [al:Wild, Cool & Swingin'] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Birth of the Blues - Louis Prima [00:06.31]They say some people long ago [00:11.61]Were searching for a diffrent tune [00:16.61]So they started swaying to and fro [00:20.90] [00:26.48]They didn't know just what to use [00:30.95]That is how the blues really began [00:34.27] [00:35.34]They heard the breeze in the trees [00:40.47]Singing weird melodies [00:45.59]And they made that the start of the blues [00:53.71]And from a jail came the wail [00:58.72]Of a down-hearted frail [01:03.64]And they played that [01:07.23]As part of the blues [01:11.64]From a whippoorwill [01:14.09]Out on a hill [01:18.22]They took a new note [01:21.60]Pushed it through a horn [01:24.25]Til it was worn [01:27.16]Into a blue note [01:31.38]And then they nursed it rehearsed it [01:37.93]And gave out the news [01:42.54]That the southland gave birth to the blues [01:50.47]And from a jail came the wail [01:52.15]Of a down-hearted frail [01:54.47]Out on a hill they took a new note [01:56.84]Pushed it through a horn [01:58.66]Til it was worn into a blue note [02:02.96]And then they nursed it rehearsed it [02:07.50] [02:09.82]And gave out the news [02:13.82]That the southland gave birth to the blues [02:22.14]And they played that as part of the blues [02:23.76]From a whippoorwill [02:24.27]Out on a hill they took a new note [02:26.30]Pushed it through a horn [02:27.09]Til it was worn into a blue note [02:28.37] [02:31.40]And then they nursed it rehearsed it [02:33.38]And gave out the news [02:35.26]That the southland gave birth to the blues