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- Birth Of The Blues
- Words by B. G.
De Sylva and Lew Brown, Music by Ray Henderson - 1926
| Verse:------------ |
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| C7 |
- B7 |
Bb7 |
- Ab7 |
| G7 Ab7 |
G7 Ab7
G7 |
C |
- A7
Eb6 G7 |
| C7 |
- B7 |
Bb7 |
- Ab7 |
| G7 Ab7 |
G7 Ab7
G7 |
C |
- A7
Ab7 G7 |
| Chorus:---------- |
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| C |
G7 G+ |
C E7 |
F D7 |
| G7 |
- |
C |
- A7 Ab7
G7 |
| C |
G7 G+ |
C E7 |
F D7 |
| G7 |
- |
C |
- |
| E7 Dm6 E |
Dm6 |
E Dm6 E7 |
Dm6 E7 |
| A7 |
- |
Am7 D7 |
G7 Am7 Ab7 G7 |
| C |
G7 G+ |
C E7 |
F D7 |
| G7 |
- |
C |
- (G7 to chorus) |
- 8-beat intro. Play 4-beats
for each cell, reading from left to right.
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- Verse:
- Oh! They say some dark -ies
long a -go Were search -ing for a diff -'rent tune
- One that they could croon
As on -ly they can. They on -ly had the rhy -thm so
- They start -ed sway -ing
to and fro. They did -n't know just what to use,
- That is how the blues re
-al -ly be -gan:
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- Chorus:
- They heard the breeze in
the trees Sing -ing wierd mel -o -dies
- And they made that The start
of the blues.
- And from a jail came the
wail Of a down heart -ed frail,
- And they played that as
part of the blues.
- From a whip -poor -will
Out on the hill, They took a new note,
- Pushed it through a horn
'Til it was worn in -to a blue note!
- And then they nursed it,
re -hursed it, and gave out the news
- That the South -land gave
birth to the blues!
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- Arranged by Jim Bottorff
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