[00:00.50]The Birth Of the Blues (1999 Digital Remaster) - Louis Prima
[00:06.29]They say some people long ago
[00:11.59]Were searching for a diffrent tune
[00:16.59]So they started swaying to and fro
[00:26.45]They didn't know just what to use
[00:30.93]That is how the blues really began
[00:35.31]They heard the breeze in the trees
[00:40.45]Singing weird melodies
[00:45.56]And they made that the start of the blues
[00:53.68]And from a jail came the wail
[00:58.70]Of a down-hearted frail
[01:03.61]And they played that
[01:07.20]As part of the blues
[01:11.62]From a whippoorwill
[01:14.06]Out on a hill
[01:18.19]They took a new note
[01:21.58]Pushed it through a horn
[01:24.23]Til it was worn
[01:27.13]Into a blue note
[01:31.36]And then they nursed it, rehearsed it
[01:37.91]And gave out the news
[01:42.51]That the southland gave birth to the blues
[01:50.44]And from a jail came the wail
[01:52.12]Of a down-hearted frail
[01:54.44]Out on a hill they took a new note
[01:56.81]Pushed it through a horn
[01:58.63]Til it was worn into a blue note
[02:02.93]And then they nursed it rehearsed it
[02:09.79]And gave out the news
[02:13.80]That the southland gave birth to the blues
[02:22.12]And they played that as part of the blues
[02:23.74]From a whippoorwill
[02:24.25]Out on a hill they took a new note
[02:26.28]Pushed it through a horn
[02:27.07]Til it was worn into a blue note
[02:31.38]And then they nursed it, rehearsed it
[02:33.36]And gave out the news
[02:35.24]That the southland gave birth to the blues