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The Birth of the Blues
Words & Music by B.G. DeSylva, Lew Brown & Ray Henderson
Recorded by Frank Sinatra, 1952
A7(V) G#7 G7 C C/B Dm7 G7
They heard the breeze in the trees
G7+ C E7 F
Singing weird melodies
D7 G7 C G#7 G7
And they made that the start of the blues.
A7(V) G#7 G7 C Am Dm7
And from a jail came the wail
G7 C E7 F
Of a down-hearted frail
D7 G7 Dm7 G7 C Fdim C
And they played that as part of the blues.
Bridge:
C C/B E7 Dm6 E7
From a whippoorwill, out on a hill,
Dm6 Bm7-5 E7 Bm7-5
They took a new note,
E7 A7 A7sus4 A7
Pushed it through a horn til it was born
Am7 D7 G7
Into a new note.
A7(V) G#7 G7 C Am Dm7 G7
And then they nursed it, rehearsed it,
G+ C Bm7-5 E7 F
And gave out the news
D7 Dm7 G7 C Am G#7 G7
That the southland gave birth to the blues.
Repeat Bridge:
(Repeat last verse)
Last time:
D7 Dm7 G7 G#7 - G7 Gdim C Bb7 G#7 C
That the southland gave birth to the blues.
The lyric and guitar chord transcriptions on this site are the work of The Guitarguy and are intended for private study, research, or educational purposes only. Individual transcriptions are inspired by and and based upon the recorded versions cited, but are not necessarily exact replications of those recorded versions.
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